Kris Gledhill Auckland University of Technology As New Zealand approaches the end of its strictest lockdown period, a debate has begun about whether it was legal in the first place. This is important because people are being prosecuted for breaching the lockdown. Naturally, lawyers are getting involved, so things are
saynopetodope.org.nz The Government proposes: A MINIMUM PURCHASE AND USE AGE OF 20 The problem: HAS IT WORKED FOR ALCOHOL? Research shows that adolescents access alcohol and tobacco primarily through friends and family, not from retailers. Why would cannabis be any different? Given the draft law allows cannabis growing
Ever since the Christchurch massacre, the Police have been operating in a doctrinaire and dictatorial fashion. We know that they used massive over-reach to grab as many guns as they could, and have treated their minister like he’s their lap dog. Earlier they announced that, despite disarming a
An article in The Northland Age about the police finally taking action to open up an illegal roadblock is not all good news. The good news is that that police finally acted last Wednesday on behalf of law-abiding surfers by intervening in order to let the surfers through the
For someone so completely obsessed with ‘image’, perhaps, Chris Comeskey has finally found his calling. With a failed dental supply business behind him and no chance of resurrecting his chequered legal career, the former headline-grabbing lawyer now has reinvented himself as Sydney’s answer to Tim ‘the Tool Man’
Unfettered by anything approaching accountability or the rule of law, we have seen during this crisis the underbelly of ‘kind’. Kindness speaks of morals and empathy but has been actioned through the suspension of liberty, democracy, and individual opportunity. The kindness-enforcer has stopped me visiting my mum in hospital
Nicole McKee Spokesperson Fair and Reasonable Campaign This is a short post for those of you who have (or have had) licences expiring during the lockdown period. On Tuesday, the Government introduced the COVID-19 Response (Further Management Measures) Legislation Bill which includes measures to extend the expiry of certain
It’s taken me a few days to write this post as I was so bloody angry before. If I had written anything when this came out it would have simply been Marama’s favourite word, in plural, written 800 times. Quite how we have come to this point is
We cannot retain a Prime Minister who does not act constitutionally if we wish to remain a First World democracy In British Commonwealth countries the rule of law is a long-established principle relating to the way in which the country is governed, dating from Magna Carta in 1215 and
Section 87 of the Health Act 1956 makes for interesting reading: 87 Compensation for persons injuriously affected (1) Subject to the provisions of this section, in every case where any building, animal, or thing is destroyed by or by order of the medical officer of health, or a health protection
Attorney-General David Parker made a speech Friday last week in response to the leaked e-mail to police and the leaked Crown Law advice to the government that revealed how little legal power the police actually had to enforce the lockdown. In it he revealed that the government have
The Speech is very long so I have put in bold the most interesting and pertinent parts of it for readers. *An article responding to the claims made by David Parker in this speech will be published later today. Parker’s Facebook Speech appears designed to provide flannel in response
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As exposed by The BFD, leaked Crown Law advice to New Zealand Police was that they had no legal basis on which to enforce the Ardern government’s panicked, draconian lockdown edicts. Which leads me, on this side of the Tasman, to wonder whether any Australian government or police force
