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Background: Highly publicised cases of homicide in a psychiatric hospital have raised concerns about the safety of such hospitals. Aims: To identify individual case reports of homicides by inpatients within psychiatric hospitals in order to update a 2011 study. Methods: A systematic search of the academic literature between 2010 and 2020, information seeking from service leaders in each state and territory of Australia and in New Zealand, and a search of public records in Australia and New Zealand. Results: The literature search revealed only one recent paper describing a homicide by a patient in a psychiatric ward. Contact with forensic psychiatrists across Australia and New Zealand yielded four cases of inpatient homicide that took place between 2010 and 2017 in Australia, and none in New Zealand. Public record searching did not add to this count. This compares to 11 inpatient homicides by 10 patients between 1985 and 2011. Conclusions: Homicides in psychiatric hospitals seem to remain rare, however, there is no consistent central documentation of these events in Australasia so it is hard to be confident about the figures. Internationally, there is similarly little centralisation of evidence. Standardised methods of recording and reporting such deaths might assist the understanding and prevention of homicides in psychiatric hospitals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The use of satellite data to calibrate ocean wave spectrum partitions are being carried out in recent wave hindcast datasets as a way of correcting historical sea state records. The directional correction method aims at establishing separate fitting coefficients, for windsea and swell partition, as well as for the different sectors from which the waves propagate. This technique is able to identify systematic errors reproduced by the wave models using altimeter data. This work calibrates the significant wave height H s from wave spectrum partitions in the South Brazil's coast using a directional multiple linear regression, previously introduced and tested in the New Zealand's coast. The ERA5 and CAWCR hindcasts are considered and corrected based on the Globwave satellite data. In general, at the boundaries of our study area, both raw wave hindcasts underestimate significant wave height H s regarding altimeter data, thus requiring correction coefficients greater than one. The scatter index analysis exhibits an improvement in the indices post calibration, as well as shows higher values nearshore with respect to offshore points for both databases before and after calibration. While ERA5 correction slightly overestimates, CAWCR correction underestimates to some extent, with respect to satellite data. The corrections were also further validated using buoy data over the continental shelf. Even in a shallow sea location, where the Rio Grande buoy is, the bulk wave parameter H s provided by CAWCR shows improvements post calibration. Comparisons pre and post calibration per direction present better results for CAWCR than ERA5. All sectors analysed for the CAWCR hindcast display improvements after of the correction. The CAWCR correction provided good results and was used as boundary conditions for a higher-resolution regional hindcast. • The ERA5 and CAWCR wave hindcasts are corrected for the Southeast Brazil. • The wave spectrum partitions are considered in the correction. • Validation against buoy data are carried out. • Wind sea heights are overestimated and swell underestimated more than wind sea. • Overall, the scatter index is significantly reduced after the correction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the New Zealand High Court rule revisions, which were completed in 2009. Topics include rules regarding the public's access to court records, the concept of open justice, and the general right of inspection during trials. Information is provided on legitimate interest and parallel litigation.

In September 2007, the Commonwealth Law Bulletin (Vol. 33, No. 3), published an article on the New Zealand Law Commission's Issues Paper on Public Registers (IP 3, 2007), including the four options for reform that the Commission was putting forward for consideration by interested persons. The Law Commission's Public Registers Report1 (the Report) has now been published, completing stage 2 of the Law Commission's four stage Privacy Review. It is available on the Law Commission's website at http://www.lawcom.govt.nz. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article examines the claim that girls and girl groups are becoming increasingly more violent in their criminal activities, achieving a violence level equal to that of young male delinquents. Based on German police statistics, the author suggests that conclusion is based on a misinterpretation of criminal records that show a fourfold difference in violence crime rates between the two genders, and a relative decrease compared to boys in girls' crimes from 1987 to 2008. Other studies from England and New Zealand are cited as reinforcing that trend.