Courts - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Wed, 11 Sep 2019 23:55:46 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Courts - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Small steps toward a normal life in Pasifika youth court https://cathnews.co.nz/2019/09/12/pasifika-youth-court-changing-lives/ Thu, 12 Sep 2019 07:54:30 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=121123 The Pasifika youth court sits in a community hall in Mangere. This courtroom is nothing like the drama of Suits. These are real young people who've made poor decisions, but with the wraparound support of the system and their families, are making steady efforts to turn their lives around. Read more

Small steps toward a normal life in Pasifika youth court... Read more]]> The Pasifika youth court sits in a community hall in Mangere.

This courtroom is nothing like the drama of Suits. These are real young people who've made poor decisions, but with the wraparound support of the system and their families, are making steady efforts to turn their lives around. Read more

Small steps toward a normal life in Pasifika youth court]]> 121123 Australia complicit in political prosecution in Nauru https://cathnews.co.nz/2018/04/05/australia-complicit-political-prosecution-nauru/ Thu, 05 Apr 2018 08:04:53 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=105580 complicit

A former president of Nauru says Australia is "complicit in a political prosecution." Nauru has abolished a decades-old link to Australia's legal system, removing the island nation's highest court of appeal in a move critics have described as "shocking" and "concerning" for human rights. On 12 December last year, the Nauruan government quietly informed Australia it wished to unilaterally withdraw Read more

Australia complicit in political prosecution in Nauru... Read more]]> A former president of Nauru says Australia is "complicit in a political prosecution."

Nauru has abolished a decades-old link to Australia's legal system, removing the island nation's highest court of appeal in a move critics have described as "shocking" and "concerning" for human rights.

On 12 December last year, the Nauruan government quietly informed Australia it wished to unilaterally withdraw from a treaty, signed in 1976, which made the Australian apex court the highest appellate court in the Nauruan justice system.

Nauru made no public announcement of its decision to terminate the treaty, which would take effect after three months.

On Good Friday, Nauru's Solicitor-General Jay Udit allegedly told Australian lawyers that the Nauru government had triggered the 90-day notice period to cancel appeals in December 2017 or January 2018.

The government announced on Monday that no new judicial appeals to Australia's High Court would be permitted under the now-defunct 1976 High Court Appeals Act.

No legislation has been enacted to establish a new local court of appeal.

The first consequence of this decision came on Tuesday when three Nauruans wanting to appeal their sentences were turned away from the Australian High Court registry in Sydney.

Former president Sprent Dabwido said this placed the three in a 'bizarre legal no man's land.'

He said the Australian government was complicit because the defence lawyers were not told the decision to end access had been made in December last year and that the registry staff 'had been instructed weeks ago not to accept any more Nauru appeals'.

Dabwido also said the Australian High Commission on Nauru had refused to speak on the issue, while Foreign Minister Julie Bishop had publicly backed the move by the Nauru government.

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Australia complicit in political prosecution in Nauru]]> 105580 Criticism of TV in courts unfounded https://cathnews.co.nz/2012/09/25/criticism-of-tv-in-courts-unfounded/ Mon, 24 Sep 2012 19:34:18 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=34051

How absurd for the president of the Law Society to criticise televising of court cases for distorting reality. Jonathan Temm believes broadcasts of some court cases over the past 15 years have helped force an undesirable law change, contributed to losses of confidence in the courts and respect for justice, and to the demonising of Read more

Criticism of TV in courts unfounded... Read more]]> How absurd for the president of the Law Society to criticise televising of court cases for distorting reality. Jonathan Temm believes broadcasts of some court cases over the past 15 years have helped force an undesirable law change, contributed to losses of confidence in the courts and respect for justice, and to the demonising of notorious protagonists.

He told an international justice conference television cameras "lie to the viewer" and broadcasters have not met their obligation to fairly and accurately report court cases. In calling for a review of the judiciary's decision to allow cameras in courts, he claimed an ill-informed public's demand for tougher criminal justice policies arose from a diet of incomplete and sensationalised televising of high-profile cases. Read more

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