A Christchurch judge has spoken out against planned changes to the Family Court system, saying it will hurt children caught in custody disputes and lead to more courtroom violence. In a rare move, Judge Robert Murfitt appeared before a Parliamentary select committee last week on behalf of himself and the other six Christchurch family court judges.
Judge Murfitt told the committee; “We appreciate that this is a matter of importance to all New Zealander's, so we've ma
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Peter Dallison struck off roll of barristers
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Peter Dallison struck off roll of barristers
The New Zealand Lawyers and Conveyancers Disciplinary Tribunal has ordered that Peter Robert Dallison be struck off the roll of barristers and solicitors. This follows Mr Dallison’s admission of a charge of serious misconduct under the Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006 which was brought by the Nelson Standards Committee of the New Zealand Law Society. The Law Society took action against Mr Dallison after he acted for clients who wished to purchase a property in Auckland. He did not provide the...
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NZ Bill of Rights Act a sham
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The New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 may state Crown agents are accountability to the law and held to account in the Crown courts just like everyone else, but this statute exists today merely as perception. The case of Clayton v Currie, currently playing out in the Christchurch High Court, not only bears this out; the Crown judge is using it to send a two-pronged message to New Zealand lawyers to "sue Crown agents at your personal peril". Vince Clayton and Linda Westbury are suing Crown...
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Police complaints going more public
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Police complaints going more public
The Independent Police Conduct Authority has announced it will make more of its findings public. This comes only weeks after it kept secret its report into the death of murder suspect Tim Parlane. Sir David Carruthers, who took over as chairman of the authority last July, told the Law and Order Select Committee this morning he had recently received a legal opinion from a senior lawyer that would allow more of the findings to be made public. In 2011-2012 the authority investiga...
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Dirty Cop's name supressed
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A Christchurch policeman has admitted stealing $2750 in cash that he received from people before ending prosecutions against them. The man has now left the police force. The 63-year-old has interim name suppression, which also prevents the exact nature of his work being reported. He was due for jury trial in the Christchurch District Court starting on Monday but instead he has admitted one representative charge of theft by a person in a special relationship. The charge lists...
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Economic crime costs NZ billions each year
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Economic crime costs NZ billions each year
White collar frauds and economic crime costs the country billions of dollars each year, government officials have concluded. Minister for the Serious Fraud Office Anne Tolley said many Ministries had been working for two years on a "Cost of Economic Crime" report that was due to be presented to cabinet soon. Tolley, speaking at the inaugural Economic Crime Action Network meeting in Auckland yesterday, said: "Economic crime can range from pro forma invoicing schemes that drain the resourc...
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'Travesty of justice' no comfort for family
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The grieving mother of slain Kapiti teen Izak Wikaira Millanta has lashed out at the justice system, which she says gives killers more rights than their victims. Christine Wikaira said she believed two men attacked her son, not one, and her family's efforts to reveal the truth had been blocked by police and coroner services. She also expressed concern about the rights of a victim's family to a lawyer and legal aid. "Through this investigation we have realised that the truth does no...
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Police spy sues former masters
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A former police informant wants $500,000 in compensation from them after developing problems as a result of a decade of passing on the secrets of protest groups.
Rob Gilchrist spent about 10 years spying on Greenpeace, anti-Iraq war groups, environmental and beneficiary rights groups, but was exposed in 2008 when his girlfriend, animal rights and Labour activist Rochelle Rees, found his police emails when he asked her to fix his computer. Mr Gilchrist, now in his mid-40... -
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Claim on deposit shocks couple
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A Wellington couple are infuriated and shocked the second receiver of the failed kitchen supplier Kitchen House is looking to claim customer deposits worth $177,876 for the former owners of the firm. Andy Morse and partner Rowan White paid a 20 per cent deposit on a $13,000 kitchen in October 2011 to the Kitchen House as part of renovation project on their Brooklyn home. However, the six-store chain, run by CGKH Ltd, collapsed not long after and was placed in receivership. The s... -
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Sex offender bailed by Judge Raoul Neave flees to OZ
A man with an "appalling" list of convictions has cut off his electronic bracelet and fled to Australia before he could face trial on sex charges.The 42-year-old was due to go on trial in Greymouth this week but police told the judge they believed he was now in Sydney. They were trying to find him, but the trial had to be aborted on Monday. Last night, police were unable to say how the man could have left New Zealand, and the Sensible Sentencing Trust decried the decision to grant him bail in th...
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