Fred W.M. McElrea

Judge Fred McElrea is a semi-retired District Court Judge in New Zealand. He has been an advocate of restorative justice for nearly twenty years, applying those principles in his work in district and youth courts. This article is, in the main, an abridged and edited version of an article by Judge McElrea in the May 2011 issue of the Journal of Commonwealth Criminal Law, JCCL 44 (www.acclawyers.org/2011jccl1). For discussion see www.acclawyers.org/tag/restorative-justice.

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Twenty Years of Restorative Justice in New Zealand

By Fred W.M. McElrea | January 10, 2012

It is not suitable in all cases, but with some principled support and seed funding, restorative justice could easily change the landscape of the criminal justice system in most common law jurisdictions.