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Radical Reform Needed of Name Suppression Rules

by Whaleoil on August 18, 2010

PRESS RELEASE

Prominent blogger Cameron Slater, who blogs under the name Whale Oil (whaleoil.gotcha.co.nz), is calling for radical and rapid reform of the Name Suppression.

Mr Slater says “For too long criminal defence lawyers have been able use judicial process to get prominent clients name suppression for all sorts of crime. Just about anyone with a profile or a profession can get away with crimes like having 300,000 images of child pornography, committing assault or sexual misconduct if they have a competent lawyer. The law is an ass, and needs changing as it has been exposed as an ass”.

Sources around parliament suggest that though changes could be made rapidly, as they were with the provocation defense and case of the three hippies attacking and vandalising Waihopai, Minister of Justice Simon Power is unwilling to move on name suppression because “he doesn’t want to be seen to be reacting to a blogger”.

“I am fully confident that I will not be successfully prosecuted, because the law is poorly drafted and does not take into account new technology”, says Mr Slater. “In many cases I all I have done is linked to media sites that have details online before suppression orders were issued.”

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“Reasonable men adapt to the world around them; unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men.”
Edwin Louis Cole

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  • gaskranken

    Wanna do some fundraising for the fighting fund Cam?

    A very clever promoter has secured Robin Williams, one of the world’s best comedians, for a gig in Auckland in November mate. Buy 50 tickets up front when they go on sale on Sep 2nd and then work out a full evening package for 50 lucky punters for a greater price than you paid for them and Helen’s your aunty.

    I reckon he will sell out in about 3 minutes, every comedian, noter, hard case, and their girlfriends will want to go to this one.

  • laworder

    Hi Cameron, notice you made use of that Edward Louis Cole quote, well I have found an even better one you can use, extraordinarily appropriate;

    The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
    - Niels Bohr

    Have also posted your appeal on Smile City to try and rark up some more donations :-)

    Regards
    Peter Jenkins
    Webmaster for Sensible Sentencing Trust

    • http://whaleoil.gotcha.co.nz Whaleoil

      keep them coming

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