The Conservative Party of New Zealand has added its voice to the storm of protest at a judge’s decision to allow a Kiwi sportswoman to walk free from court on a DUI charge, affording her the added privilege of permanent name suppression so that she could compete overseas. PRESS RELEASE: Court Priority Misplaced “Conservative Party Leader…
A “high level sportswoman” has won permanent name suppression and a discharge without conviction, despite being caught drink driving with twice the legal level of alcohol in her system. The Gisborne Herald reported Friday the decision by the Gisborne Court to act leniently was “partly because it would affect her ability to compete overseas“ In…
Continuing in our popular series of Migrant Tales, first hand accounts of the migrant experience of New Zealand taken from locations around the net. Today’s tale was taken from an emigration forum and was written by an Irish migrant who left Europe with her Kiwi husband to settle on Auckland’s North Shore. The couple are…
Did a TVNZ news report deliberately reveal the identities of two men who have name suppression over an alleged voting scam? This news report seems to be in a similar vein to the breaches that blogger Cameron Slater was recently prosecuted for. It will be interesting to see if TVNZ will also be prosecuted, and…
Much as we’d predicted the “senior public servant” accused of assaulting his 15 year old son has been acquitted, despite three independent witnesses testifying that they’d seen the assault which happened after the boy had stolen money from his mother so that he could run away from home. See our post “Name Suppression V. The…
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