Naylor JonoJONO NAYLOR (National): When I—Kris Faafoi: This better be good.JONO NAYLOR: I hope it will be good Mr Faafoi and I am sure you will be waiting with bated breath to see what happens next. When I rose to speak on this bill for the first time—it was at its second reading—I had to confess to not having read the whole thing. I can now report that I still have not read the whole thing. It will be a bit of a surprise to you but as tempting as it has been to sit down and try to plough my way all the way through this bill I have to confess that I have not managed to do that. It is a vitally important piece of legislation and I know that when we have got a title like Judicature Modernisation Bill we have a bit of a laugh because it is a funny word. We are not sure how to pronounce it. But this is a very very serious bit of legislation—all 1200 or so pages of it I think. It is critical to the future of the judicial system in New Zealand. For a justice system to be just it needs to be accessible to the people who are trying to access it. In this modern age when we go online to do our banking and we go online to find out almost anything that is going on in the world it just seems a little bit archaic that our justice system still requires everything to be focused on paper. It still requires everything to be managed in that way. Amongst other things amongst this great tome of paper here is the provision for all judgments to be put online where appropriate. Obviously at times it will not necessarily be appropriate to release them but it is to ensure that everybody can have access to them. Instead of having to go down and do all that research going through all the papers it will be done online. Using technology is going to be paramount going forward for a just judicial system. I think one of the other things that really jumps out at me which you would think in this modern day and age would be happening already but because we have not modernised this—Kris Faafoi: The judicature.JONO NAYLOR: —the judicature yes thank you—already is the provision for audiovisual links to be able to used. This will be of particular use in remand situations. Obviously when somebody is on remand they may have to come backwards and forwards from wherever it is they are being held on remand to the court for various different appearances—over bail and at various different stages. What this bill will allow to happen is for those particular hearings to be able to take place via an audiovisual link. Of course this saves the taxpayer money amongst other things and it also improves safety because every time you transfer someone who is in custody obviously there are greater security risks that go with that. We are improving security we are improving accessibility and of course we are making it more cost-effective as well. I want to acknowledge the Justice and Electoral Committee of the 50th Parliament because that is the committee that dealt with this bill through this system. Obviously it was a very hard-working committee because it did manage to get its way all through this bill and it has made a number of recommendations. It has made some important clarifications—for example to raise the value of personal property of the judgment debtor that would be exempt from seizure to $5000 for their necessary tools of trade and $10000 for their necessary household furniture and effects." This of course makes it consistent with the High Court threshold. That is just one of the things that have been picked up on—there is a whole list that the committee has come up with—but I do want to commend the committee for doing that. Finally I do just want to say there have been a number of Supplementary Order Papers (SOPs) put forward on this particular bill and a number of them have been put up by the Opposition. They are not all going to get voted against by this side of the Chamber. SOP 62 in the name of Jacinda Ardern obviously makes a very clear point. It is going to put a new subclause (2) in clause 3(d) which will read that "Nothing in this Act affects New Zealand's continuing commitment to the rule of law and the sovereignty of Parliament." It is absolutely important that we continue to uphold those things and have that inscribed within our modernised Judicature Act. I am really looking forward to the third reading as we get through this bill."