New Zealand Court

The Sensible Sentencing Trust is slamming the Government’s tweaks to it’s Three Strikes 2.0 law labelling them a ‘weak compromise that lets victims down’.

By Sensible Sentencing Trust
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Rotorua — To be attributed to Detective Inspector Lindsay Pilbrow:  A 52-year-old man has appeared in court today, in relation to the murder of three people in Rotorua in September.

By New Zealand Police
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Auckland — Company’s failure to ensure health and safety policies and procedures were correctly followed played a key role in the tragic death of a passenger on a luxury charter vessel.

By Maritime New Zealand
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Centrist.co.nz is set to release an exclusive report detailing the New Zealand Medical Council’s (MCNZ) actions during the COVID-19 pandemic.

By Centrist
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Centrist is a media platform with a difference, advocating for fair, balanced, and responsible journalism.

By Centrist
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Greenpeace Aotearoa is suing Fonterra for misleading customers by claiming that Anchor butter is ‘100% New Zealand grass-fed’ when up to 20% of a Fonterra dairy cow’s diet could be imported palm kernel linked to deforestation of rainforests in Southeast Asia.

By Greenpeace Aotearoa
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Hamilton — A Waikato farming company, a company director and a farm manager have been convicted and fined a combined $305,900 for unlawful discharges of dairy effluent into the environment, and contravention of abatement notices, on numerous occasions between August 2022 and June 2023.

By Waikato Regional Council
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Auckland — A man who threw what turned out to be tomato juice at UK women's rights advocate Kellie-Jay Keen and Tania Sturt, an organiser of the "Let Women Speak" event in Auckland's Albert Park on 25 March last year, has been convicted of assault charges against the two and was discharged Tuesday.

By Women's Rights Party
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Hastings — Last week the High Court in Wellington heard the case that the Hastings District Council had implemented an unlawful directive to start fluoridation. Today Justice La Hood ruled that the council was allowed to continue because the unlawful directive was still "valid".

By Fluoride Free New Zealand
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The Taxpayers' Union of New Zealand has criticized the judiciary for its recently revealed list of perks, which includes free air travel and accommodations for spouses, generous sabbaticals, and access to limousines.

By Expert Briefing
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Wellington — The High Court in Wellington has ruled that a diplomatic representative from Myanmar can enter New Zealand to attend an ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) meeting this week.

By Expert Briefing
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Hastings — Fluoride Free New Zealand (FFNZ), along with New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out for Science (NZDSOS), filed for an Injunction against the Hastings District Council in the Wellington High Court yesterday (9 April 2024).

By Fluoride Free New Zealand
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Maritime New Zealand has filed a charge against KiwiRail following an incident in January 2023, when the Interislander ferry Kaitaki lost power approaching Wellington Harbour, requiring it to issue a mayday before making its way to port.

By Expert Briefing
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Auckland City — Three people have had charges laid against them relating to alleged corruption in the award of lucrative construction contracts in New Zealand.

By Expert Briefing
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Auckland City — An Auckland-based accountant, Brett William Knock, has received a eight month home detention sentence after admitting to submitting false applications for COVID-19 Wage Subsidies.

By Expert Briefing
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An article published by NZ Doctors Speaking Out with Science claims the New Zealand High Court was deceived over vaccine exemptions.

By Expert Briefing
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A New Zealand man has been sentenced to two years and two weeks in prison for obtaining wage subsidies using forged documents and multiple identities.

By Expert Briefing
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The New Zealand Supreme Court has ruled that a woman who gave birth to a child with spina bifida is entitled to accident compensation because the condition should have been detected during a scan at 20 weeks into the pregnancy, and the mother would have terminated the pregnancy had the diagnosis been made.

By Briefing Bot
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A High Court decision  issued last Friday in the New Health New Zealand vs the Director General of Health (DG) case, found that the DG acted unlawfully because he had failed to consider the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act (BORA) before he mandated 14 Councils to put fluoride into their communities’ drinking water.

By Fluoride Free New Zealand
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Canterbury — Animal rights organization SAFE is renewing its calls for a Commissioner for Animals, following the pitiful sentence for a Canterbury farmer whose animals suffered under their watch.

By SAFE For Animals
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Raglan — A farming company has been convicted and fined $78,000 for unlawful discharges of dairy effluent into streams at their Raglan farm.

By Waikato Regional Council
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Queenstown — A Queenstown man was sentenced this week following the incident in February last year when a child was seriously injured during a day out on his boat.

By Maritime New Zealand
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