Logie Jan; Faafoi KrisJAN LOGIE (Green): Thank you Mr Chair. Another area—and I do just want to acknowledge what the Minister's saying. From having sat in a Family Court and watched a police officer say that somebody was low risk because it turned out that they hadn't picked up the last page off the photocopier and they had somebody of a very recent arrest it is timely—past time—that we digitise that process and get all the information in one place and that is work absolutely to be commended.I am interested also around what's happened with the Government's work on the sexual violence legislation which was announced in July 2019. I've had a very keen interest in this piece of legislation because the need for it was clearly identified in 2009. We know that our courts at the moment are actively causing harm to victims of sexual violence. It is harm where people describe this as worse than the rape itself and that we have legislation that could go a long way—not all the way by any means—to fixing that and I do not understand why that has not been brought back into the House and passed into law. I would love to hear that that will be coming into the House very soon.I'm also interested to hear how the second stage of that work that was agreed by Cabinet in July 2019 around looking at introducing more tikanga-based processes non-adversarial processes into the court process—more investigating how we can introduce alternative processes outside of the court as well as changing of the definition of consent—where that work is up to and when we can see that work coming to fruition. And acknowledging the connection to this around the Law Commission's most recent work around the Evidence Act and the recommended changes to the family violence reforms—recognising the same trauma is happening in the courts for many of our victims of family violence. So I'm hoping that the Minister will be able to give me some reassurance that we're making some progress.Hon KRIS FAAFOI (Minister of Justice): Mr Chair thank you very much. Just to the Sexual Violence Legislation Bill that the member has mentioned it is still our intent to progress that as fast as we can. We've actually been having some discussions with her colleague about making sure we can make it as good a piece of law as we possibly can and hopefully we'll be able to deal with that issue there as well. I also think I'm contractually bound to mention that the legal fraternity—well certainly the defence lawyer fraternity—has had some issues with that bill. I raised those at the Criminal Bar Association of New Zealand conference about a month and a half ago and reiterated our principal position as to why we didn't agree with their opposition to aspects of the bill. And I think that was a relatively respectful conversation that we had.In terms of some of the alternative methods of being able to offer or process justice in the community—just realised I've got my mask on again. Sorry Mr Chair. I think for some years actually to be fair and more recently with some more momentum the setting up of alternative courts is looking like it's really a way of the future. And I would like to pay homage to the judiciary who are playing a leadership role in that as well. The member will know because of where she's from that there is a pilot at the Porirua District Court around a youth list court which I have attended a session of earlier this year. And the way that that operates and allows those people who are going through the court process but also who may be taking someone or have been a victim during that court process is much more grassroots and allows people to understand what they're going through.The procedures within the court which can be foreign to most people in New Zealand unless they're there on a regular occurrence—and the aim of those courts is to ensure that people aren't there on a regular occurrence. And instead of just being purely punitive to also find alternative ways to make sure that they can get people back on the straight and narrow. The one example that I saw at the Porirua District Court really enthused me about what could happen when the court is made as understandable as possible. And I want to take my hat off to the judiciary who are leading it in many ways as well as the Chief District Court Judge around Te Ao Mārama. I think it's a great initiative that we have to try and put our best foot forward to try and find a way to support it.