Post Tagged with: "freedom of information"
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Privacy v Freedom to Seek and Impart Information in New Zealand
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 anonymously. When it comes to the right to information, this past week was typical in New Zealand. On Wednesday, Christchurch sisters Karen Beaumont and Anne-Marie Forsyth failed in their protracted court battle to lift name suppression on the man who sexually abused them when they were pre-teens. Though unsuccessful, their tenacity to obtain the right to publicly name their criminal abuser without facing their own imprisonment was unique. This included the fact any media reported on it. Meanwhile, across Cook’s Strait, the Privacy Commissioner ruled a NZ Herald reporter must reveal his sources for a […]
