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Victory for protesters’ rights
By Steven | May 6, 2011
Valerie Morse has won her appeal in the Supreme Court against her conviction for offensive behaviour for burning a NZ flag in protest at the 2007 Anzac Day dawn ceremony. (I represented her, along with Tony Shaw and Felix Geiringer).
Valerie lost in the District Court, High Court and Court of Appeal. But the decision in the Supreme Court was unanimous in her favour. They have found that protesters can’t be arrested and convicted for offensive behaviour unless the police can show there is a disturbance of public order.
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