Talk:District Court of New Zealand

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This article makes no sense![edit]

How on earth did it take 33 years after the District Courts Act 1947 for District Courts actually to be established? Can anyone explain this apparent anomaly?GSTQ (talk) 22:21, 11 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The Magistrates' Courts existed before 1980. The District Courts Act 1947 was called the Magistrates' Courts Act 1947 until it was amended to change the name of the courts. Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 19:53, 5 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 29 June 2017[edit]

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The result of the move request was: Moved — Amakuru (talk) 09:45, 14 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

District Courts of New Zealand → District Court of New Zealand – The court changed its name from plural to singular with the new District Court Act 2016. Lcmortensen (mailbox) 05:57, 29 June 2017 (UTC) --Relisting. Anarchyte (work | talk) 06:44, 6 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Support. This is the correct name.--Hazhk (talk) 22:39, 9 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Support. Both the nomination and the only !vote so far are lacking in any valid rationale, the official name counts for little and the correct name for a Wikipedia article is the one that best conforms to the article naming policy. But in this case, use in recent reliable secondary sources is inevitable. Andrewa (talk) 02:08, 13 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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District Court Locations Update[edit]

The list of locations of the Court needs to be updated. In particular, some of the locations currently listed as circuit courts only now have resident judges (e.g. Gisborne). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rohivanion (talk • contribs) 09:50, 5 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]