Why is the Crown fighting a court case it knows it is very unlikely to win? Because doing so stops it from having to face cases it really would prefer not to deal with.
[Update: see important revisory note at post's end!]
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Quick - to the validating machine!
The Department of Corrections was doing what the courts told it was the law. The courts were wrong about that, so now the Department of Corrections owes prisoners compensation. That's exactly how our law is supposed to work.
Read MoreThe determined Mr Kerry
US Secretary of State John Kerry has managed to convince the Israeli and Palestinian leaderships to come back to the negotiations table...but that's just the easy part.
Read MoreForce-feeding at Gitmo
The force-feeding of hunger-striking prisoners in Guantanamo prison amounts to politically sanctioned torture by the US government, and breaches established international medical ethics treaties.
Read MoreWorld News Brief, Friday March 15
First pope from the Americas begins new job; Xi Jinping formally sworn in as China's president; Tokyo denies claim Japanese government offered to pay Algeria ransom for release of prisoners; Khmer Rouge leader dies; new Israeli government to be sworn in; and more
Read MoreWinning the War of Empty Stomachs?
Palestinian prisoners have ended their mass hunger strike before anyone died. Now the world needs to ask some serious questions about the mass incarceration of Palestinians as a tool to break their resistance to occupation.
Read MoreAfghanistan – lest we forget
New Zealand troops could be out of Afghanistan next year – but are we stumbling out of one ill-considered international military commitment straight into another, and what happens to our reconstruction and development commitment to the country our troops are leaving?
Read MoreHow to rehabilitate prisoners
Rehabilitating prisoners requires more action than rhetoric, says the author of a new book on the justice system
Read MoreAfghanistan – alarm bells should be ringing
If the Afghanistan alarm bells were not ringing in Wellington over the last weekend – they should have been
Read MoreKey lifts the SAS veil – a little bit
Afghanistan – The return to secrecy
As Prime Minister John Key confirms the NZSAS is back in
Afghanistan: Stop fudging the facts
Mainstream media wakes up to some questionable aspects of
Bang 'em up for longer or let 'em out?
The vexed question of what to do with convicted criminals
Read MoreWorld News Brief, Wednesday December 24
Europeans may take Guantanamo prisoners; Guinea's dictator Conte dies, prompts coup; Hyundai/Kia declares emergency management; Chinese navy to battle pirates; and more
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