Posts by Peter Ashby
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The Criminal Cases Review Commission here in the UK has been running for a few years now and seems to function well. It basically sits between the appeals courts and the appellant with the power to initiate investigations on its own. So if you can persuade them of your case and they investigate they can then recommend that the case be accepted for Appeal. A number of people have been freed as a result of it and it was instrumental in freeing the women jailed for killing their babies under the testimony of Prof Meadows.
IIRC it can also recommend changes to law and practice as a result of what went wrong unless it has been fixed in the mean time. It could serve as a model in the New Zealand system.
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Graeme firstly thanks for these articles they have been most enlightening. You say at the end that you think chrages of treason might have been appropriate. I find that interesting and if they intended to overthrow the govt that would be reasonable. Under the treason provisions what has to be proven? for eg would 'bishop' Tamaki's stated aim of turning NZ into a theocracy count? or does he get off because he aimed to achieve this through the ballot box?
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Well to be pedantic, it wasn't on the cover it was in the plastic bag with the weekend magazines and shit. And the point was not to overlap with the Mail's readership it was to increase the number of copies sold. Worked here, paper wasn't read and has just been recycled (literally, I just heard the truck).
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"Why is the RWC the only reason to build a decent transport system in Auckland. It only goes on for a month - Aucklanders have to get around the rest of the time.
It's a sporting event - why can't the fat gits going to the game get some exercise and *walk* to Eden Park - it's only 45 minutes from the city centre!"Well if the way is well signposted and traffic controlled a lot of the Europeans will be used to doing just that, and they are likely to make up the bulk of RWC visitors. Before games at Murrayfield there's a steady flow of people walking from Central Edinburgh and afterwards traffic comes to a halt as a convivial tide of humanity flows towards town. Instead of spending heaps on public transport for RWC, spend a little well planned money to make it practical and easy to walk from Queen St/K Road to Mt Eden.