Emily and her partner Jonathan Armour The highly critical jury at the Coronial inquest into the death of British tourist Emily Jordan has returned a verdict of Death by Misadventure. Emily drowned whilst participating in a commercially organised river boarding excursion with Mad Dog River Boarding ( now named The River Boarding Company) on the Kawarau…
The inquest into the death of British tourist, Emily Jordan, has at last opened. But not in New Zealand, the country where she was killed whilst river boarding, but in Great Britain. At the time of her death some adventure tourism activities in New Zealand were operating in a “regulatory vacuum.” Emily Jordan drowned whilst…
Father of Emily Jordan, the British tourist drowned in a river boarding ‘accident’ in New Zealand, has told reporters that an inquest into his daughter’s death is to be held at long last. But it is to be heard in Britain. According to the Southland Times (emphasis ours) …Ms Jordan’s father, Chris Jordan, speaking from…
We’ve often mentioned the tragic death of British tourist Emily Jordan, who drowned on an organised riverboarding activity whilst on holiday in New Zealand in April 2008. In November we raised our concern that an inquest still hadn’t been held into her death in New Zealand. Read Still no inquest for Emily Jordan. Emily’s father,…
Months after the completion of the review of adventure tourism in New Zealand, regulations have finally been drawn up. The new regs, made under the Health and Safety in Employment Act, don’t take effect until October 2011 – three and a half years after the drowning death of British tourist Emily Jordan sparked a review…
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