Registrar Gordon Thatcher retired from the Supreme Court, effective 1 May, after more than 30 years as a state sector employee. Kieron McCarron (pictured) is […]
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On 6 April 2016, a three-judge panel issued a Supreme Court judgment which directed the Registrar refuse filing of further applications from an appellant. The […]
As often occurs in the affairs of the New Zealand courts, a decision released by the Supreme Court under cover of the year-end holidays has […]
The state-controlled press fears to report it. It is a case which strikes at the highest levels of State power and involves affidavit evidence from […]
Twas under the cover of Christmas and the Supreme Court of New Zealand was stirring. Santa slipping down the chimney had nothing on all five […]
A perverse legal clash of privacy and retribution driving the information highway in New Zealand has the media cowering, lawyers petrified and criminal offenders living […]
Few acts warrant greater public concern than when a government implements a general prohibition against access to public records. Even the seemingly best reasons over […]
Habeas Corpus means literally “You have the body”. In law it is a procedural remedy to unlawful detention which requires the entity restricting freedom of […]
Lewis Carroll’s menagerie might find validation in a decision earlier this month by Court of Appeal Judge Rhys Harrison, appealed last week to the New […]