Last month New Zealand’s National Business Review (NBR) published a small but extraordinary story covering the arrest of yet another Auckland businessmen accused of gross indecency with minors: Auckland businessman bailed on sex and drug charges, faces possible 10-year jail...
In the last few days two very important cases involving New Zealand’s now internationally notorious police force have made headlines in that country. Probably the most notable of these is the Teina Pora case, the fact that the county’s National...
“Not only must Justice be done; it must also be seen to be done.” R v Sussex Justices, Ex parte McCarthy ([1924] 1 KB 256, [1923] All ER Rep 233) As was to be expected the mike Sabin trial was concluded recently with the...
“The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards” – Felix Frankfurter (US Supreme Court) Two days ago Stuff.co.nz featured a story, claiming that it had been spotted on a blog. That story featured...
Over the Christmas New Year break New Zealand’s now infamous Whale Oil blog published a very good investigative expose penned by award-winning veteran Kiwi journo Stephen Cook. With his investigation Cook exposes just some of the goings on in the jury room of one...
As regular readers will know team LF have been posting stories exposing the rampant corruption within New Zealand’s Real Estate Agents Authority (REAA). In so many cases that have been brought to our attention there has been extremely concerning behaviour...
The New Zealand Heralds Rob Kidd has been at it again. This time his loose lips writing style has enabled team LF to once again identify someone with name suppression. On this occasion it’s three Kiwi “celebrity butchers”. It’s almost...
Just the other day New Zealand’s Whale Oil Blog ran a couple of stories on a series of fraud and corruption allegations inveigling New Zealand’s Inland Revenue Department (IRD). Whilst the journo responsible, Stephen Cook, would undoubtedly have preferred that those involved be...
A few years back now Lauda Finem reported on the story of a New Zealand real estate agent that was caught red-handed running a fraudulent website. At the time we contacted New Zealand’s APN, the Herald on Sunday and ensured...
In the early hours of this morning (CEST) five years ago team Lauda Finem first started publishing. Our simple objective then, as it is now, to expose stories and events where the New Zealand public have been lied to, often intentionally befuddled...