Hipkins Chris: Juries (Jury Service and Protection of Particulars of Jury List Information) Amendment Bill — In Committee 
Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume 
Hipkins Chris: Juries (Jury Service and Protection of Particulars of Jury List Information) Amendment Bill — In Committee 
[Sitting date: 31 July 2012. Volume:682;Page:4113. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
CHRIS HIPKINS (Labour—Rimutaka) 
: 
 I am very pleased to take a call on the Juries (Jury Service and Protection of Particulars of Jury List Information) Amendment Bill. I am sure my colleagues Charles Chauvel Lianne Dalziel David Clark and Clayton Cosgrove are on their way to the House momentarily and will be here any moment now very keen as they are I know to take their calls on this particular piece of legislation. 
I am very interested that there is no regulatory impact analysis and regulatory impact statement on this bill because the proposals set out are expected to have no impact or minor impacts on businesses individuals and not-for-profit entities. I am somewhat surprised by that and I would like to hear further from the Minister in the chair the Minister of Justice as to exactly why there has been no regulatory impact statement set out. That is not particularly good practice by the Government and I am sure we will hear more from the Minister. 
According to Cabinet papers last year there was an incident where a self-represented accused corresponded with persons whose names and addresses were on the jury panel for his trial. This raised concern about the safety of jurors and it was decided to amend the Juries Act to restrict access to jurors’ address details. This bill is an example of how I think the Government takes a somewhat reactionary approach to dealing with privacy issues rather than something that is more systematic. Of course it is interesting that the Minister in charge of this bill the Hon Judith Collins the Minister of Justice is not known necessarily for her stellar track record when it comes to privacy issues and I am not entirely sure— 
Hon Judith Collins 
: Actually that’s insulting. 
CHRIS HIPKINS 
: It is insulting? Goodness me! It speaks. I am interested to see that she is in charge of this particular piece of legislation given that her track record on privacy issues is not particularly flash. Labour members will be supporting this bill because we do think it is appropriate that the extra protections this bill puts in place are passed into law. Defence attorneys and advisers to defendants representing themselves will not be allowed to show addresses to defendants and I think that is something we will— 
Jacqui Dean 
: I raise a point of order Mr Chairperson. This is Part 1 of the bill and that member is straying into Part 2 of the bill. 
The CHAIRPERSON (Eric Roy) 
: Well I had not had enough time to see where he was going to be going but shall we just say that we are on Part 1 Mr Hipkins. Continue on Part 1 please. 
CHRIS HIPKINS 
: Absolutely. No problem Mr Chair but this is of course the introductory part of the debate. I have been listening in on the debate back in my office. It has been a relatively wide-ranging debate so far and I certainly look forward to hearing that member’s contribution to the debate. When the big hand hits 12 and the little hand hits 8 maybe she might finally rouse herself into action and decide to make a contribution to this debate that is a little bit more useful than the one she just contributed. 
Now that some more of my colleagues—who I am sure are very keen to get into this debate some more—have arrived I will just conclude my comments by saying that overall I think there are some useful provisions in this bill. I am looking forward to hearing what colleagues around the Chamber have to say on the debate and I am looking forward to seeing how it unfolds. I am sure I will have more to say as we go through it.