Restorative Justice Trust
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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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