The absence of mainstream journalists at the court appearance of doctors challenging their regulator is noteworthy. This situation underscores the critical importance of transparency and accountability in the healthcare sector.
He should have retained the best US criminal lawyer he could find and cut a deal – a quick guilty plea in return for, say, seven years, $10 million in fines and restitution and been out of prison in 2019. But he didn’t and so his US legal problems are just beginning.
Statistics include 62,231 illegal immigrants convicted of assault and an additional 42,915 facing pending assault charges.
Having a space to name a father and mother is simply not enough and is not inclusive in the eyes of the current government.
In New Zealand there are very few regulations to ensure the public can find out about what influences government decision-making. Therefore, we shouldn’t be surprised that no smoking gun has yet emerged.
Second individual to try to kill the former president faces five counts – but will they all stick?
Collapsing trust in NZ education, parliament, courts, heathcare, police and media to all-time lows.
Our legal friend has received no reply to his two messages to an acquaintance, a senior National Party staffer.
We believe the review by the Ministry of Health is designed to expand euthanasia/PAS in New Zealand. You have until 5pm Thursday, 26 September 2024, to submit your view, so please find 10 minutes and complete it today.
Why did they waste millions of taxpayer dollars on a doomed ‘murder’ trial? And should they be sued for defamation?
If iwi keep inventing new privileges under Article Two of the Treaty, then the Crown should use Article Three which says that Māori rights and duties are the same as those of everyone else.
A jury at the Auckland High Court has found Dr Philip Polkinghorne not guilty of killing his wife, Pauline Hanna, in their Remuera home in April 2021.
The fate of the coalition Government’s ill-thought-out effort to roll back the cultural changes of the Labour Government highlights the difficulties of acting without first securing the active support of both the state apparatus and the wielders of the society’s ‘soft power’.
Here is yet another example of why the much-vaunted gun register will fail.
Goldsmith said these reforms are essential for ensuring communities and law-abiding New Zealanders are protected from offenders who display a “flagrant disregard for the law”.
Kiwis who just want to get on with their lives are sick of it, and they perceive in Seymour’s bill an opportunity to restrain extremism while also reminding our courts about what, precisely, the Treaty means and what it doesn’t mean.
