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Court Action over EFB

by Whaleoil on October 31, 2007


Court action over Electoral Finance Bill – Newstalk ZB

A court challenge is being made against the Electoral Finance Bill.

Papers have been filed at the High Court in Wellington today, against Attorney General Michael Cullen seeking a judicial review of the legislation.

The action is being taken by Auckland man and ACT Party member John Boscawen. He is joined by Greypower, the Sensible Sentencing Trust and ACT Party leader Rodney Hide. Mr Boscawen says they believe the Attorney General was wrong in not indicating to Parliament that the legislation was inconsistent with the Bill of Rights Act.

The Government has relied on a Crown Law opinion which says the legislation is consistent, but this has been challenged by the Human Rights Commission and Law Society.

The Free Speech Coalition formed by David, Bernard and myself has donated $10,000.00 to this legal action. Thank you for your contributions, this is the first of many steps your kind donations have enabled us to bring to fruition.

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  • http://gpollard.wordpress.com Gabriel Pollard

    How much of the $10,000 was made up of the donations made to the Group?

  • Whaleoil

    All of it came from donations of which there are many. They continue to arrive directly and through the post and we now have our plans in place for oour push against the bill.

  • Monty

    Thanks Mr Whaleoil for taking on these corrupt pricks that have the cheek the call themselves the elected government.

     

     I hope this gets massive media coverage – and at the least it will embarrass this corrupt government.  It will be interesting to watch Cullen (or is it King) stand up and defend the EFB after what I hope will be a successful action.

     

    I assume this action has come completely out of left field for these pricks – i look forward to seeing coverage in the papers, on Gummint TV and of course King answering questions in the house on this matter (or will the pricks claim that the matter is before the courts so cannot comment)

     

     

  • Seamonkey Madness

    Well done Cam, David and the KtB team for supporting this court action.

    The more that the sheople know about this corrupt piece of proposed legislation, the better.