SECTION 27 CULTURAL REPORTING

Real Life Reports provides you and your clients a cultural and background report. A Cultural Report assists the courts to see a whole person and their life, rather than just an offender and the offence. 

 

Section 27 of the Sentencing Act 2002 states than an "offender may request court to hear person on personal, family, whānau, community, and cultural background" and these can be requested by the clients lawyer.

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Our reports outline your clients personal, cultural and community background. In addition, we include how their background could have contributed to the commission of the offence, what the client is doing to prevent further offending and what day-to-day and professional support they have around them.