Under section 17 of the Inquiries Act 2013, the Inquiry can designate a person or group as a core participant in the Inquiry.

This practice note explains how participants can apply for legal assistance to engage with the Royal Commission.

The Abuse in Care Inquiry had issued an interim order restricting public access to all documents and material supplied by Crown agencies.

The Abuse in Care Inquiry has and will continue to receive information from victims and survivors participating in private sessions with Commissioners.

Survivors, advocates and experts speak at first public hearingThe scene has been set for the next three years of the Abuse in Care Royal Commission of Inquiry with the completion of our first public hearing this month.

***Distressing content warning*** Moana Jackson CRSNZ (10 October 1945 – 31 March 2022) was a New Zealand lawyer specialising in constitutional law, the Treaty of Waitangi and international indigenous issues.

***Distressing content warning*** Presentation starts at 19:40 Dr Charlene Rapsey is a clinical psychologist and lecturer in the Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Otago.

***Distressing content warning*** Presentation starts at 23:45 Presentation starts at 04:00 Professor Cahill and Dr Wilkinson addressed the following issues in their presentation: A summary of the various international Government-sponsored and Church-sponsored inquiries into child sexual abuse by Catholic priests and other religious groups since 1985 when the first such inquiry was held in the US, and the care and safeguarding initiatives that resulted, as well as their findings and recommendations; A summary of Volume 16, Books 1 – 3 of the Report of the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse which dealt with religious institutions, especially the Catholic Church, the Anglican Church, the Orthodox Jewish community, and the Jehovah’s Witnesses.

***Distressing content warning*** Presentation start at 07:15 Mr Ledingham gave evidence about the abuse he and his two brothers experienced at the hands of a priest while students at St Joseph’s Catholic School in Onehunga (as detailed more fully in the published book “The Catholic Boys”).

***Distressing content warning*** Presentation starts at 11:45 Presentation starts at 01:14:30 The Children’s Commissioner will cover the following topics on behalf of the Office of the Children’s Commissioner.