Information Gathering Survey - Legal Aid

Overview

The Ministry of Justice is conducting a survey to better understand the security settings and practises of our third-party suppliers and providers.

In this survey, we ask questions about your Practice. For the purposes of this survey, when we say Practice, we mean whatever form your legal practice takes.  So, for example, if you are an employee of a law firm, we want to know about the systems your firm operates.  If you practice on your own account, we want to know about the systems you use personally.  

Please ensure only one provider from each practice (e.g. firm) completes the survey. Sole practitioners and barristers should complete a survey each.

Please note this is not an assessment of your Practice’s privacy and information security settings.

We understand that some of the information we are asking you to provide is sensitive.  We will not be publishing the responses to this survey.  If the Ministry receives a request under the Official Information Act 1982 that includes the information you provide, because of the kind of information we are asking you to provide, we will likely withhold most or all of the information or release it in a summarised form that does not identify any particular Practice.

A number of the questions in this survey relate to Confidential Information.  Confidential Information means information subject to legal professional privilege or other information that your practice obtains from the Ministry, clients, or others in the course of delivering services under your contract with the Ministry, which:

• is by its nature confidential;
• is marked as ‘confidential’, ‘in confidence’, ‘restricted’, or ‘commercial in confidence’;
• is of a sensitive nature or commercially sensitive; or
• most people would consider confidential.