Te Ao Mārama C O M I N G I

The idea of toning down for- of outcome in the conventional So that solution focused judging malities, to make the experience Courthouse but by going through approach is probably one of the key of coming into court one that is the process in the Rangatahi Court ideas that is going to be brought less intimidating and one that they’re able to leave the Court from the specialist Courts into the helps. [...] We’ve through the Family Court system, Ms Epati: One part of this is about already talked about the language – through the care and protection making the environment and the that’s going to be a hard one for us system, graduating into the Youth language relevant to a community to start dropping the jargon we are Court, graduating then into the or a person who comes into it, but so accustomed to us. [...] So, I welcome the end of the day if the process that advocates will play in Te Ao the enthusiasm of the profession to has produced the best information Mārama, if we adopt this cultural support Te Ao Mārama. [...] genuinely faced penalties for breaking it! There was also at the top of We need to have more people this tradition of ringing the church bells every hour so the profession from diverse backgrounds at the people knew the time – though by the mid-nineties they so that young top of the profession so that young had progressed to having someone go up the tower at people coming people coming through can. [...] Nor am I someone who In other words, we are in a sense possesses intimate first-hand expe- subject to the law and the subject rience of the daily meaning of such of the law.