A LEGAL rights activist has been sentenced to jail after being found in contempt of court for publishing a suppressed judgment.

Vincent Siemer was sentenced to six weeks’ jail in the High Court at Wellington yesterday after being found in contempt of court after a breach of court orders.

The breach came after Siemer published a judgment, which had been suppressed by Chief Justice Helen Winkelmann, relating to the Urewera police raids accused on his website last year. [Read more…]