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The Ministry of Impunity

The government faces legal action over compensation for torturing children at Lake Alice. But Crown Law, running legal interference for decades, is again pulling strings. Part 1 of a special 3-part series for Newsroom.

Overview:

  • The state has admitted torture and abuse of children in state care.
  • It apologised in 2024.
  • But it is legally and financially dragging its feet in providing appropriate ‘redress’ to those tortured and abused.
  • A legal challenge begins next week.
  • Over three reports this week, Aaron Smale examines why the redress efforts are going sideways.

Monday: The Ministry of Impunity
Tuesday: The Crown’s debt to society
Wednesday: ‘People need to step down or be removed’

She’d spent days preparing to grill him and after three hours of passive answers and low interest, he was suddenly cornered. And he knew it.

Lake Alice survivor Leoni McInroe had demanded a meeting with the new head of the Crown Response Unit, Rajesh Chhana. The Crown Response Unit was set up by the Government to respond to the findings and recommendations of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care.

Chhana’s appointment was immediately controversial when it was pointed out (by this reporter) that he had previously been the lead official from the Ministry of Justice in New Zealand’s delegation to the UN in 2015 to appear before the Committee Against Torture. He’d also been in charge of New Zealand meeting its obligations under the UN Convention Against Torture. The delegation’s appearance is a regular part of New Zealand’s obligations to explain how it is complying with the international legal conventions it is signed up to.  One of those conventions is the UN Convention Against Torture.

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