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Jury trials have been the commonest mode for hearing sexual violence cases in the past 10 years, compared to judge-alone hearings.
Our LawNews editor asked me to write about the experience of my first-ever appearance in the Supreme Court in the case of A, B and C v D & E Limited as trustees of the Z Trust SC 106/2022 – the so-called “Alphabet” case.
Despite 30 years of scientific development, the reliability of children’s memories as evidence remains an issue that New Zealand’s courts must grapple with as debate within the scientific community persists, a key ...
The New Zealand Independent Community Pharmacy Group (ICPG), a group of community pharmacists, sought judicial review of a decision by the Ministry of Health to issue licences under the Medicines Act 1981 to a ...
Xavier Valent appeared for sentencing after being found guilty of 86 charges spanning the importing, manufacturing, possession for supply, and supply of significant quantities of predominantly methamphetamine, but ...
The Minister of Climate Change initiated a review of the New Zealand Emission Trading Scheme (ETS) pursuant to s 160 of the Climate Change Response Act 2002 (CCRA) in September 2022. The Cabinet decision minute ...
To describe barrister Roderick Mulgan as something of an overachiever is a complete, and some might say, outrageous understatement.
To convict or acquit? Startling new rape stats from England and Wales reveal bad news for defendants
Juries in England and Wales are more likely to convict than acquit defendants once rape cases reach the courts – and this has been the case for at least the past 15 years.
There were hundreds, if not thousands of mornings that I woke up feeling dreadful and vowing to swear off alcohol again, only to tip back into the booze drain with a bottle of wine come 5pm. This particular ...
After nearly half a century surrounded by the law, Judge Philip Recordon is hanging up his gown. The District Court judge’s acting warrant may be expiring but he’s got a few more months left to write decisions and ...
After a judge-alone trial, Nui Rangirangi was convicted of one charge of causing grievous bodily harm with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.
The High Court declined the Waikato Regional Council’s application to review a decision by the District Court at Hamilton, which upheld a determination by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) ...
Sharma Saili Jacobson was sentenced to three years and eight months’ imprisonment on 17 charges related to possessing and supplying cannabis, ecstasy and LSD, possessing firearms and ammunition, and failing to meet ...
On 9 May 2023, the New Zealand Nurses Organisation gave notice of a strike at Gisborne Hospital on safety and health grounds on 24 May 2023 between 1.30pm and 2.30pm.
Owners of leaky home lose bid to prevent body corporate from indemnifying members against litigation
The plaintiffs, Cy Kennedy and Kajsa Bjors, owned a unit in the Dominion Building in Wellington, which, according to the body corporate’s minutes, has suffered from a leaking roof since 2004.
The Commissioner of Police applies for civil forfeiture orders under the Criminal Proceeds (Recovery) Act 2009 in respect of, amongst other things, a house at Vickerys Road, Christchurch, which is the clubhouse of ...
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