Restorative Justice Trust

 

The People

Click here for the CV of Helen Bowen and Jim Boyack

 

Trustee Jim Boyack has been a criminal lawyer for 20 years.  He, like Helen below, has been a volunteer restorative justice conference facilitator for the past 5 years, and with Helen, is a co-director of Justice Alternatives.   Jim has also written on the relationship between restorative conferences and the court. 

Helen Bowen.  She has been a criminal lawyer for the past 20 years.  She is co-author with Jim Consedine of the book “Restorative Justice – Contemporary Themes & Practice”, published in December, 1998.  She has also trained as a mediator and facilitator.

Stephen Hooper, of the Waikato University Law School, Stephen is a senior lecturer in Dispute Resolution, is a co-author of Spiller “Dispute Resolution in New Zealand” and has been engaged as a consultant and facilitator for the adult restorative justice programme in Hamilton and the school-based conferencing pilot in the Central North Island.

Father Jim Consedine, a leading advocate for restorative justice.  He is the author of “Restorative Justice:  Healing the Effects of Crime” (1995), the second edition of which was published in April of last year.  He is the national co-ordinator of the Restorative Justice Network, which joins together community groups around the country offering restorative justice services. 

Matt Robson, Minister of Corrections (center) at the launch of the manual

 

 

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