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Media Release Right to Life Inc. 24 June 2010
Right to Life, has resolved to seek leave of the Supreme Court to allow an appeal against the judgment of the Court of Appeal. The Court of Appeal stated in its judgment of 1 June 2011 on the appeal of the Abortion Supervisory Committee and the cross appeal of Right to Life that the unborn child did not have a right to life. [Read more…]
PLAYBOY millionaire Seeby [Thomas Finnegan] Woodhouse has appealed against a dangerous driving conviction, after he was snapped [by a traffic officer’s speed camera] doing more than 170kmh.
Woodhouse, the founder of telecommunications giant Orcon and former Young Entrepreneur of the Year, was caught on Boxing Day 2009 travelling at 174kmh in a 100kmh zone. [Read more…]
Christchurch father Jimmy Mason has been given leave to appeal by the Supreme Court. The 51-year-old was sentenced to nine months supervision and ordered to undergo anger management courses after a jury found him guilty of assaulting one of his two children. The case was widely seen as a test of the anti-smacking laws as Mason publicly claimed he’d done no more than flick his son’s ear.
The Supreme Court has just announced it will permit him to appeal his conviction on the grounds that combining two allegations in a single count resulted in a miscarriage of justice. The two allegations are punching a child and pulling his ear.