Dr David Cumin Spokesperson Free Speech Coalition It was standing room only today at the back of the court for day one of our proceedings against Auckland Council and the Mayor for their de-platforming of two controversial speakers from Council-owned venues last year. Thank you to all of those members
By James Davidson Many of us have heard of the ball waxing controversy currently occurring in Canada. It illustrates the unintended consequence of adding gender identity and gender expression as protected categories to the human rights code. Something that Andrew Little is looking into. Apart from being a case study
From an unassuming Victorian terraced house in Leyton, East London, Britain’s Sharia Council presides over hundreds of cases every year. This parallel legal system remains unknown to many of its neighbours in Leyton, yet this court has existed for over 20 years. Presiding over the court are ten Sheikhs;
Fair & Reasonable Campaign: On Tuesday the National Party went public on what it claims is a leaked copy of the Government’s draft legislation detailing the next round of firearms law reforms. We have also obtained a copy of the draft Bill, the details of which are best summarised
The Morrison government has finally released the draft of its long-awaited religious freedom bill. While it will obviously take some time – and someone with more than a bush lawyer’s understanding – to sort through the bill, there are some initial grounds for encouragement. The government has, it says, tried to
National party Press Release: A leaked copy of the government’s Arms Legislation Bill reveals law-abiding firearms owners and gun clubs will be hit hardest, rather than gangs and genuine criminals, National’s Police spokesperson Brett Hudson says. “I’m worried about the path this government is going down on
This short video (6 mins) starts by looking at the concluding days of Ruth Bader Ginsberg on the US Supreme Court. It then looks at the wider context of President Trump’s appointments to the Federal Appeals Court (from where the Supreme Court judges are appointed) and the Supreme Court.
The appeal by Cardinal George Pell against his child sex abuse conviction was yesterday rejected by Victoria’s Court of Appeal, a decision that has been met with surprise from legal experts and joy from advocates. The legal team for the Vatican’s most senior cleric convicted to date has
ACT Party: Last week, the prime minister was on the international stage and in the glare of global media where she normally excels. But she seriously stumbled by lecturing our friend and closest ally, Australia, about their climate change record. (This follows her earlier criticism of Australia’s immigration laws.
In October last year, Spanish Bride wrote an article regarding Housing New Zealand’s refusal to do anything about one of their properties that was being used as a drug house in Christchurch. Well, it seems that their head-in-the-sand attitudes continue to reign supreme, and it appears that the NZ
Until recently, the Crown owned New Zealand’s coastline on behalf of all New Zealanders. In 2011 parliament passed the Marine and Coastal Area Act which confiscated public ownership of the foreshore and seabed and then allowed Maori to claim title and ownership rights. As a result, Maori lodged nearly
Free Speech Coalition Press release: Responding to the planned ban on protest within 150m of abortion clinics, Free Speech Coalition spokesperson Rachel Poulain says: “Restrictions on protest near abortion clinics would set a worrying precedent. If we accept a 150-metre restricted-speech zone, there is no clear principle to stop groups
It looks like the Green Party is starting to haemorrhage support for one of their most important policies, the right to blaze up willy nilly. According to the latest in a series of three surveys commissioned by New Zealand’s largest licensed medicinal cannabis company Helius Therapeutics, Green Party voters
ACT party Press release: The government needs to come clean about what types of firearms are being handed in as part of its buy-back scheme because the numbers suggest the taxpayer is buying a large collection of pop guns. The headline figures of the number of firearms collected has been
The NZ Police have confirmed that Firearms owners have handed in 12,183 firearms at over 100 events held nationwide 5 weeks into the buy-back scheme. 7573 firearms owners have been processed, and they have handed in a total of 10,844 prohibited firearms as well as 46,129 parts
National party press release: Corrections Minister Kelvin Davis has created a culture of leniency in our prison system which puts prisoners ahead of victims and public safety. New Zealanders confidence in Corrections will rightly be eroding after revelations that dangerous prisoners with extreme views have been able to send inflammatory
