» Archive for 'Criminal Justice'

Rosemary McLeod on the plant police (September 5th, 2010)
Lawyer discipline (July 16th, 2010)
Directors’ Powers and Duties defined – but does the criminal law care? (July 7th, 2010)
Coroners and other whingers responsible for chase deaths (June 21st, 2010)
Warnings of massacre (June 3rd, 2010)
Whale Oil and insurance (May 31st, 2010)
Bethune’s ‘defence’ strategy (May 29th, 2010)
Another dumb court suppression decision (May 25th, 2010)
Name suppression – Bouquet from the Eb Leary case (May 20th, 2010)
UK judges deplore “torrent of legislation” (May 3rd, 2010)
Sir Geoffrey and personal responsibility for drunken oafishness (April 27th, 2010)
Three strikes and the max (January 19th, 2010)
Victim Impact Statements – Minister Power misled by officials? (December 12th, 2009)
Good things happening (December 10th, 2009)
Victim impact statements (November 14th, 2009)
Weatherston appeal a reproach to Court of Appeal (October 14th, 2009)
Why apply for suppression? (October 12th, 2009)
Court of Appeal wheedling for guilty pleas (October 2nd, 2009)
True justice and murder sentencing (September 16th, 2009)
Outrageous and courageous kids (September 13th, 2009)
Reflections on Field's corruption (August 5th, 2009)
Provocation (3) (July 23rd, 2009)
Provocation (2) (July 22nd, 2009)
Provocation and the ‘homosexual advance’ defence (July 21st, 2009)
Prison consultants (July 7th, 2009)
Prison building and containers (June 22nd, 2009)
Plunket gob-smacked (June 18th, 2009)
Pestering Plunket and the criminalising of smacking (June 17th, 2009)
Aussie lawyers to pay for poor lawyering (June 16th, 2009)
What juries should do? (June 14th, 2009)
Jury etiquette (June 8th, 2009)
Bain – told you so (June 5th, 2009)
The Bain trial (2) (May 2nd, 2009)
Bain retrial: justice insiders’ self indulgence (April 28th, 2009)
Non-parole period for Karen Aim’s killer (March 26th, 2009)
Hockey stick defence (March 26th, 2009)
An old man with a slug gun (March 20th, 2009)
Native restorative justice (sentencing circle 2) (February 19th, 2009)
Auditor General confirms parole scandal (February 17th, 2009)
The prosecution discretion and official corruption (January 28th, 2009)
Prosecuting officials for parole harm (January 12th, 2009)
Canadian ’sentencing circle’ = jury? (January 11th, 2009)
Reid under justice supervision when he raped and killed (November 2nd, 2008)
Can candidates work together to protect signs? (October 27th, 2008)
Election hoarding vandals (2) (October 25th, 2008)
Is Jack Straw a Garth Mcvicar convert? (September 27th, 2008)
Privileges Committee (September 11th, 2008)
Praise for the Parole Board (September 11th, 2008)
Another theory to explain the inexplicable (2) (September 10th, 2008)
Bad management kills Wellingtonians (September 6th, 2008)
Tai Hobson (September 4th, 2008)
Serious Fraud Office (3) (August 18th, 2008)
“Ma te whakama e patu” – let shame be your punishment (August 9th, 2008)
Secret youth justice and Robbie Coltraine (August 8th, 2008)
SFO hard case. Bad law? (August 2nd, 2008)
Exclusion of improperly obtained evidence (July 23rd, 2008)
UK Labour toughens up after Minister becomes crime victim (July 17th, 2008)
Three strikes targets who’d “rather be hung for a sheep than a lamb” (July 17th, 2008)
Unmasking the Minister of Foreigner Conspiracies (July 16th, 2008)
‘Women and children first’ (July 8th, 2008)
Anti-smacking referendum timing in Parliament’s hands (June 25th, 2008)
More on ‘officially ordered cowardice’ (June 20th, 2008)
Lying immigrants (June 17th, 2008)
Garth McVicar and Susan Couch’s hope (June 14th, 2008)
The Policing Bill and officially ordered cowardice (June 12th, 2008)
Is this the result of arming the Police? (June 10th, 2008)
Institutional cowardice (June 9th, 2008)
Trial delays (June 6th, 2008)
Pink vests for taggers – shame as a sanction (June 4th, 2008)
Foreman’s right to silence (May 29th, 2008)
Justice disgraced in Sila trial (May 26th, 2008)
Ending the right to silence (May 24th, 2008)
Littering and public safety (May 15th, 2008)
Tough policing for Wellington Central – why not? (May 9th, 2008)
More astonishing US crime stats (April 30th, 2008)
New policy for TV shock ads ? (April 25th, 2008)
Sensible Sentencing and Annette King (April 20th, 2008)
International Crime Victims’ Survey report (April 16th, 2008)
International Crime Survey results (March 20th, 2008)
Spending on crime vs spending on education (March 12th, 2008)
Frustrated Judges should support each other (March 6th, 2008)
Life Sentence (February 27th, 2008)
Serious crime rates (2) (February 1st, 2008)
Borat’s support (January 29th, 2008)
Serious crime rates (January 27th, 2008)
Prosecuting Fairfax (December 21st, 2007)
Wrong result, wrong excuses, but legally mainstream reasoning on McNamara parole. (December 14th, 2007)
Prison Justice for Bell (December 10th, 2007)
Attorney General has ground to make up on freedom of speech (December 2nd, 2007)
Supreme Court and open courts (November 17th, 2007)
Why has Sir Geoffrey got the review of the TSA? (November 15th, 2007)
Acceptable cultural killings? (November 15th, 2007)
Congratulations to the Fairfax papers (November 14th, 2007)
Suppression of tohungaism, and nutty christians (November 13th, 2007)
Inquiry into the terrorism charges and raids (November 12th, 2007)
Terrorism Suppression Law (November 10th, 2007)
Medical morale (November 7th, 2007)
Smokers for Guy Fawkes’ party? (November 6th, 2007)
Punch-ups and hypocrisy (November 1st, 2007)
Serious Fraud Office (September 18th, 2007)