It’s like watching a disaster in slow-motion. A man who raped an Invercargill woman has been allowed to move in next door to his victim, and a legal expert says there’s nothing police can do about. Craig James Crofts, 48, was jailed for four years in 2004 after admitting he raped the woman, and last [...]
I saw this headline on Stuff and thought “about time”. Parents win disabled children care payment case Sadly, it turns out only that parents with adult disabled children have won the support of the Human Rights Tribunal, not the government itself. Currently only caregivers who are not related to the disabled adult receive payment from [...]
The gay rights group Rainbow Wellington is taking the New Zealand Blood Service to the Human Rights Commission over the restrictions on sexually active homosexual men giving blood. Frankly, I think this is a stupid waste of the scarce resources of the New Zealand Blood Service, who can ill afford HRC lawyers. It is an [...]
There is a lot of nonsense being bandied around about the “Three strikes” law. Fortunately Colin Espiner has been very helpful and (unintentionally, I presume) regurgitated all the nonsense in one place. Thank you. Colin. Apparently, Mr. Espiner thinks that the Nats are about to descend into legal barbarism by even giving countenance to this [...]
MFAT officials have warned that the new proposed hardline sentencing laws risk damaging New Zealand’s international reputation and ability to influence others. My initial reaction to reading of this is, so what? I say this not because the UN Human Rights Council consists mostly of nations that have execrable human rights records, as David Garrett suggests. Frankly, I think that argument [...]
Tucked away in the news yesterday was this story of a coroner’s report on the death of an inmate of Christchurch prison. David Cox died in Christchurch Hospital in 2006 after contracting pneumococcal pneumonia in Christchurch Prison. His sister recounts how he was denied the extra blankets and clothing she tried to provide as “prisoners were required [...]
