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  Barrister volunteers to take on John Banks prosecution

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  • Published: 24-10-2013, 07:24 PM
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  Barrister volunteers to take on John Banks prosecution

  

  
  

  
  A barrister has volunteered to appear on behalf of private prosecutor Graham McCready in a judicial review of John Banks' committal for trial.
  
  Auckland barrister Michael Lloyd has offered to represent Mr McCready at no cost, should Crown Law decide not to take over the prosecution. Mr McCready had earlier put out a public request for donations to help cover the cost of engaging a lawyer for the review.
  He said a lawyer needed to be ready to respond as soon...

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  Watchdog sues Court of Appeal Registrar

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  • Published: 03-10-2013, 01:37 AM
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  Watchdog sues Court of Appeal Registrar

  Investigative court blogger Vince Siemer has filed a civil claim against Court of Appeal Registrar Clare O’Brien for unlawfully preventing filing of appeals to that Court. The alleged abuses concern Siemer’s appeals but he says he has become aware of three unrelated appellants who experienced similar conduct by Ms O’Brien this year.
  
  The High Court claim alleges Ms O’Brien is making judicial determinations not provided by law in dismissing applications and rejecting filings of...

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  Police pay compensation after tussle with farmer

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  • Published: 24-09-2013, 10:29 PM
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  Police pay compensation after tussle with farmer

  Police have agreed to pay a Southland farmer $14,000 in damages and costs after armed officers entered his property without permission and, in a resulting tussle, pepper-sprayed him, punched him in the face and Tasered him while he was handcuffed.
  Court and police documents say three constables, from Invercargill and Bluff, arrived at the Greenhills farm of Corey Vreugdenhil on March 18 last year to investigate a complaint of intimidation laid by his neighbour, Les Cooper. The two men...

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  Top cop discharged without conviction

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  • Published: 19-09-2013, 03:22 PM
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  Top cop discharged without conviction

  A judge was heckled as he handed a police inspector who assaulted two teenagers a discharge without conviction today.The unknown man shouted from the public gallery that the decision was an "absolute scandal'' as Manurewa area commander Richard Wilkie, 51, was told of his sentence at Auckland District Court this morning. He pleaded guilty in July to two charges of assault during an off-duty incident, after discovering his 14-year-old daughter drinking with other teenagers in Bucklands Beach, ...

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  Police stranglehold on justice

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  • Published: 16-09-2013, 01:00 AM
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  Police stranglehold on justice

  Seven years ago, a drunk driver ploughed into a car containing sisters Sania and Danielle King. Seven-year-old Sania was killed; Danielle, 9, survived.It is hardly surprising that the girls' grieving parents, Neville and Veena King, have been protective of Danielle ever since. So when she came home this year with injuries allegedly sustained at the hands of police, it cut deep. The Hamilton family claim Danielle, now 16, was "thrown around like a rag doll" by officers trying to break up an o...

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  Mother 'shell-shocked' after acquittal

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  • Published: 15-09-2013, 11:47 PM
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  Mother 'shell-shocked' after acquittal

  

  
  

  The mother of a security guard who died on his first night on the job is"shell-shocked"after the man accused of his murder wasfound not guilty. She feels the New Zealand judicial system hasfailed her son.
  
  The27-year-old accused, whose name has been suppressed, was acquitted inthe High Court in Auckland this afternoon for the murder ofCharanpreet Dhaliwal in November 2011.The accused was found guilty ofassaulting another person, Viki Alo, on the same night and wassentenced...

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  Down on the Law Society Farm

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  • Published: 07-09-2013, 03:36 PM
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  Down on the Law Society Farm

  The fox was put in charge of the hen house as the Law Society’s prosecution played out this week against Auckland Human Rights Barrister Evgeny Orlov in an Auckland District Court room. The Tribunal panel is expected to strike Orlov off for making ‘scandalous’ complaints against then-High Court (and current Court of Appeal) Judge Rhys Harrison However, nothing was to be left to chance after legal blogger Stephen Franks recently criticised the inordinate time and expense of the 6 year prosecuti...

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  Dotcom summoned to give evidence against John Banks

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  • Published: 07-09-2013, 11:58 AM
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  Dotcom summoned to give evidence against John Banks

  
  Judge Edwin Paul of the Auckland District Court has made an Oral Evidence Order requiring Kim Dotcom. body guard Wayne Temparo,lawyer Gregory Towers and the CEO of Sky Tower Casino Nigel Morrison, to appear before the Auckland District Court at to give evidence against the Honorable John Banks.
  
  The next hearing date on 16 September will set a timetable for the proceedings to establish whether or not there is prima facie evidence that Mr Banks knowingly filed a false Local...

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  Court of Appeal Judge Accused of Creating Fiction

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  • Published: 04-09-2013, 11:46 AM
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  Court of Appeal Judge Accused of Creating Fiction

  The judge at the heart of a Law Society tribunal case this week has another antagonist tugging at his robe. Barrister Evgeny Orlov went on trial in Auckland this week for comments he has made about Justice Rhys Harrison for handing over a child to a known paedophile and alleged slights against foreign born New Zealanders. Last week legal blogger Vince Siemer filed two affidavits with the Supreme Court in support of applications to appeal separate rulings Harrison J made on allegedly non-ex...

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  Lawyer Lynching Labelled Show Trial

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  • Published: 23-08-2013, 01:28 PM
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  Lawyer Lynching Labelled Show Trial

  

  
  

  
  Political oppression against those who exercise their freedom to express critical views of judges is set to play out in an Auckland District Courtroom on 2 September 2013, where the New Zealand Law Society is seeking to have human rights barrister Evgeny Orlov debarred for privately criticising Court of Appeal Judge Rhys Harrison.
  
  The prosecution has been on foot for five years, has cost Society members over $200,000 and is largely unknown to the public despite
  
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