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Vince Siemer and Supreme Court accuse each other of contempt 31 Jul 2013 | 08:41 am
When Vince Siemer was charged with contempt for flagrantly breaching a court suppression order, he made a novel argument: he was upholding the rule of law. The suppression order was made by Winkelman...
Has the Harrassment Act just swallowed the law of defamation? 31 Jul 2013 | 08:34 am
In a landmark judgment, a court has ordered a blogger to indefinitely remove more than a hundred posts and comments attacking the reputation of a lawyer, and not to write about her again. The decisio...
Read this, if you haven’t already 21 May 2013 | 07:59 am
Andrew Geddis nails the government for another constitutional abuse.
Defamation and satire 24 Apr 2013 | 10:06 am
Memo to anyone thinking of suing or threatening someone else for defamation after that person made fun of them. Don’t. It’s not that the law clearly protects humorous speech and satire. That question ...
Information-sharing by the government: deja vu 11 Apr 2013 | 04:50 am
Radio NZ is reporting that: The Government is considering a massive expansion of data-sharing between ministries and agencies and has asked the Treasury to assess the potential impact on people’s priv...
Review of law of contempt: deja vu 11 Apr 2013 | 04:28 am
The Law Commission has announced that it will review NZ’s laws of contempt of court. This will involve a discussion paper about the issues, to be issued next year. I wonder how this fits with another ...
Interim injunction against EQC blogger 10 Apr 2013 | 10:32 am
I feel as if I write this same thing about once every year. Someone rushes to court to get an injunction preventing the release of information. It’s based on breach of confidence. Here it’s the Earthq...
Wha…? 7 Apr 2013 | 09:41 am
I confess I’m entirely befuddled by the Dominion Post’s front-page lead on Saturday, “Prosecution for breaching paedophile’s rights”. Can someone help me out here? Isn’t the story conflating the Commi...
Digital harrassment remedies coming 4 Apr 2013 | 04:22 am
Justice Minister Judith Collins has (by and large) accepted the Law Commission’s recommendations to better protect victims of cyber-harrassment. (I have explained and defended and critiqued and defend...
Live public debates on our Constitution 3 Apr 2013 | 08:33 am
Debating the Constitution During April and May, the NZ Centre for Public Law (with generous support and funding from the NZ Law Foundation) will host a series of debates on issues raised by the Govern...
