Una Jagose: Solicitor-General on the newly updated prosecution guidelines
Heather du Plessis-Allan Drive · Newstalk ZB
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The Solicitor-General's spoken out over public pressure to change the prosecution guidelines.
Una Jagose had advised prosecutors to think carefully about particular decisions when a person is Māori.
She's now scrapped any mention of race in the official guidelines.
In a rare media interview, Jagose says the previous version simply lacked clarity.
"It led people to understand that I was saying there were two different approaches - one for Māori and one for everyone else. That was quite the opposite to what I was intending to say."
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