Source: (2004) Te Ara Whakatika: Newsletter of the court-referred restorative justice project. March/April 2004. Issue 21. Downloaded 8 February 2005.
Two recent restorative justice conferences held on a marae demonstrated the potential for cross-cultural healing through the court-referred restorative justice process.
The conferences followed guilty pleas by three young men who had damaged an irreplaceable Maori carving at the entrance to the whare. (excerpt)
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