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Upcoming seminar on the Internet and suppression issues
By Steven | November 10, 2009
The Law Commission, InternetNZ and the Ministry of Justice are hosting a seminar on the Internet and the courts. It will be looking at issues such as:
• Undermining of suppression orders
• Lack of jurisdiction over material hosted outside NZ
• Online discussion of crimes and trials potentially being a contempt of court
• Jurors who “Google”
• How deleting a story doesn’t remove it from caches and syndication feeds
• How do media and Internet publishers find out what actually has been the subject of a suppression order?
• Online criminal offending databases, and the right to a fair trial
• Is education or incarceration needed for Internet publishers who commit contempt?
Event Details:
Date: Thursday, 3 December 2009
Time: 9:00am – 5:00pm, followed by drinks
(registrations open at 8.30am)
Venue: Te Papa Museum of New Zealand, Rangimarie Room
Speakers:
Hon Christopher Finlayson, Attorney-General
David Collins QC, Solicitor- General
Steven Price, Barrister & author of Media Minefield
Robert Lithgow QC
Brent Edwards, Media Committee, EPMU
Warren Young, Law Commission
Judge David Harvey
Sinead Bouchier, Group Online Editor, Fairfax
David Farrar, Editor, Kiwiblog
Frank March, President, Internet New Zealand
Ursula Cheer, Associate Professor, University of Canterbury
If you’re interested, contact:
Campbell Gardiner
InternetNZ
Email: campbell@internetnz.net.nz
Phone: 04 495 2332
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