An Alexandra man will appear in the Alexandra district court tomorrow (31/12/2014) at 9.30 am after being charged under section of New Zealands judicial proceedure Act with “Knowingly or recklessly” breaching suppression provisions. A colleague of the cop who pled guilty to...
On Wednesday 24th December last week, the day after LF posted a story on the arrest of a man who police alleged had assaulted Inspector Kerry Watson had made the previous Sunday (21st December 2014) evening, the New Zealand Herald reported...
As we near the end of 2014 we are all certainly a little older, perhaps even a little wiser. Over the coming weeks many in the Antipodes will celebrate the light and warmth that summer brings, we’ll enjoy the water, be...
Ex cop turned anti drugs campaigner, turned National Party MP, Mike Sabin hit the headlines a couple of days ago with Fairfax new Zealand newspaper the Sunday Star Times running a story exposing a police investigation that had until that...
The New Zealand Herald is this morning reporting on yet another story of one of that countries thick blue line being attacked whilst on the job. Apparently Inspector Kerry Watson was on “patrol” when one of the country’s motorists decided he was...
This morning ex National party member of Parliament Tau Henare made his second court appearance on charges of having breached the name suppresion granted to his fellow Kiwi ex-politician, has-been rugby player and Central Otago resident Grahame Thorne. The New Zealand mainstream...
Arguably one of Mahatma Gandhi’s most enduring wisdoms was that civil disobedience demanded that right thinking citizens, true democrats, do their utmost to disobey apparently unshakable laws that are inequitable or just plain evil; bad for justice, bad for democracy, bad for...
At last it seems that the New Zealand mainstream media have begun to cotton on to the obvious judicial inequities that are currently coming out of New Zealand’s Courts, where despite sports people being the perpetrators of crime they are simply getting off with...
Nearing the end of the second world war, with the imminent defeat of Nazi Germany, a group of well organised SS officers established an organisation whose sole purpose was to aid Nazi war criminals fleeing Europe, to escape prosecution for war...
A couple of weeks ago LF reader and Cameron Slater’s most vocal witness to date, Mr Marc Spring, thought to forward LF an email he had received from Lynn Prentice the weekend prior. Prentice was apparently responding to Mr Spring’s invitation...