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Archive for July, 2011

Courts hold the line against name suppression!

Thursday, July 7th, 2011

The Supreme Court has just denied leave to appeal in a name suppression case. David Ingram Rowley and Barrie James Skinner have been charged with dishonest use of a document and perverting the course of justice. The trial is set for February next year. They were granted name suppression in the District Court. This was overturned in […]

Siemer in contempt

Thursday, July 7th, 2011

Vince Siemer has been found in contempt of Court again for, well, for being in contempt of Court. In brazen defiance of a suppression order plastered all over the front of Winkelman J’s decision denying the Urewera defendants a jury trial, Vince posted the judgment on his website. The suppression order said: THIS JUDGMENT IS […]