Letter from the Editor Dear Friends, The New Zealand Supreme Court this week issued a judgment sentencing me to three months’ prison for alleged contempt of an […]
NZ Supreme Court Insights
67 posts
The Crime Of Candor New Zealanders live with pervasive suppression orders by judges. The extent of the information being suppressed is anyone’s guess. In an […]
District Court Judge Kevin Phillips issued his judgment today. Defendant-judge Michael Lance was acquitted of the charge of keying 21 scratches on all sides of […]
The New Zealand Attorney General has applied for leave to the Supreme Court to overturn a Court of Appeal Judgment which ordered the Refugee Status […]
The New Zealand Attorney General has applied for leave to the Supreme Court to overturn a Court of Appeal Judgment which ordered the Refugee Status […]
There are many honest lawyers in New Zealand, though it often seems few of them sit as judges. The cloak-and-dagger process of judicial appointments does […]
The Soviet dissident Alexandre Solzenitsyn once spoke of the Russian people “We did not care enough about freedom. In the end we got what we […]
An application for leave to appeal a Court of Appeal decision imposing a discretionary $3,000 financial barrier against an impoverished man has been filed with the New Zealand […]
“Friends of Bill W” is taking on a new meaning after the meteoric rise of Bill Wilson to the New Zealand Supreme Court bench this […]