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The Asian Legal Network supports Te Hunga Rōia Māori o Aotearoa’s (THRMOA) stance in strongly opposing the Government’s proposal to cut legal aid funding for s 27 reports. These reports help sentencing Judges to understand a person’s culture, impacts of colonisation and the role of social, cultural or economic deprivation in that person’s offending. We reiterate and support THRMOA’s view that Māori will be disproportionately affected by this proposal, and that the Government is obliged under Te Tiriti to fund these reports. Cultural reports are also used by Asian communities. It is important that people of all backgrounds - especially if they require legal aid - are supported to have their cultural and social background taken into account by sentencing Judges where relevant to the offending. Please share this to your networks.

The result if implemented of this new government's proposal will be more Māori in jail. Whether that is the intention or not may be another discussion, but it *will* be the result. Where is the cost analysis of all the extra jail time this minor 'cost cut' will cause? Where will that funding come from? By cutting yet another service? There is no way to quantify the social cost of ruined lives. Blinkered thinking coming from somewhere;

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