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Speaker 1: And to the courts where we've updated protocols for judge

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Speaker 1: alone trials. They'll be implemented nationwide from tomorrow. It involves

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Speaker 1: teleconferences between prosecution and defense three weeks before that trial

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Speaker 1: to help streamline the process. We've also got progress on

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Speaker 1: sentencing adjournments. They've dropped from thirty six to twenty nine

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Speaker 1: percent with nearly twenty nine hundred fewer delays. All of

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Speaker 1: the sounds reasonable. Nicle the Keys, the Minister for Courts

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Speaker 1: with of course, and is back with us very.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Mike.

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Speaker 1: As all of this come together as this material, we

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Speaker 1: are getting better and tracking will Is that fair?

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Speaker 2: Yes, we're on the right track. I mean this is

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Speaker 2: a mammoth task trying to speed up the court system,

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Speaker 2: and I think we've been trying it over successive governments.

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Speaker 2: I think where we've really won with this one as

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Speaker 2: having the Chief District Court Judge Timon who come in

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Speaker 2: and say I'm going to get on board with what

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Speaker 2: the Beehives directing, how can we do this? And he's

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Speaker 2: come out with some really good timeliness protocols, programs, case

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Speaker 2: review hearing and if I care, Mike, just let me

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Speaker 2: run through very quickly what it all means. So three

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Speaker 2: weeks before a trial, as you said, Register of the

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Speaker 2: Court's going to contact the prosecution and defense and say

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Speaker 2: are you ready to proceed? And if you are, what's

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Speaker 2: the priority Like has this person been on remand for

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Speaker 2: a long time? And if that person has, let's put

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Speaker 2: them first and then they'll set a hearing down. Then

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Speaker 2: it we'll get to the day of the trial. And

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Speaker 2: when we have the day of the trial instead of

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Speaker 2: its starting at ten o'clock in the morning and the

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Speaker 2: judge's right, is everybody ready? The judge is going to

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Speaker 2: start at nine or nine point thirty, go through all

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Speaker 2: of the cases that are there and say are these

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Speaker 2: people ready? And have we got the priority right? So

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Speaker 2: those that have been on remand get heard first, and

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Speaker 2: when they say yes we are, or no, this one's not,

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Speaker 2: this guy's going to change his mind and he's now

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Speaker 2: going to plead guilty, he actually comes off that list.

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Speaker 2: And when he comes off that list, it frees up

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Speaker 2: the space for someone else. So those people will know

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Speaker 2: when through the day that they will be there. And

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Speaker 2: further to that, with the case review notes or hearing

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Speaker 2: guidelines that's going to come out on Friday as well.

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Speaker 2: It means that if a person says I plead not

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Speaker 2: guilty within ten days, the registrar is going to get

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Speaker 2: hold of the prosecutor and say what's your evidence for this,

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Speaker 2: just to check whether or not it's the case that's

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Speaker 2: worthwhile going through and where we've piloted it, we've seen

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Speaker 2: good results. So this, on top of the other changes

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Speaker 2: we're making, it's going to make huge improvements. And it's

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Speaker 2: what ACT has always said, we want fair and timely

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Speaker 2: justice for our victims, and we're starting to get their minds.

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Speaker 1: It also seems logical apart flary this judge alone thing, though,

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Speaker 1: is that justice being seen to be done? Are we

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Speaker 1: open to a bit of postcode judging or justice potentially?

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Speaker 2: No, I don't think so, because it's actually going to

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Speaker 2: be based on the need, the readiness of the trial

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Speaker 2: and the need of the person who is being prosecuted,

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Speaker 2: especially those ones that have been sitting on remand for

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Speaker 2: a long time. We've had quite a few people plead

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Speaker 2: not guilty and change their pleas later on in the process,

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Speaker 2: and that's what causes a lot of delays because we

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Speaker 2: set down these hearing dates and then they change their minds,

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Speaker 2: but they change their mind on that day, So I

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Speaker 2: don't think it has anything to do with where you live.

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Speaker 2: It's more about speeding up the entire process so you

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Speaker 2: get seen early and there's that tiny justice for victims

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Speaker 2: as well.

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Speaker 1: Good stuff to co appreciate it. Nicole McKee, who's the

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Speaker 1: Justice Minister or Minister for Court Social say she's not

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