You've got mail . . . and you're bankrupt - 8 May
A High Court judge has allowed financial services provider Asteron
Life Ltd to serve a bankruptcy notice on a man in South Africa by
email, provided it receives a "read
reply". Asteron, formerly Royal and
SunAlliance, had already received judgement against Pieter Anton
Franck. Court permission is required to serve bankruptcy papers on
a debtor overseas. Justice Clifford said that reasonable efforts
had been made to serve the papers on Mr Franck who had ignored a
request to provide an address for service. -
National Business Review
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Law Society slams three strikes bill - 6 May
The Law Society has
trashed the "three strikes" sentencing bill, saying if Parliament
wants courts to hand out tougher sentences it should broaden
preventive detention laws. The bill proposes to hand down a
near-compulsory 25-year non-parole sentence for the worst
criminals after their third serious offence. Law Society spokesman
Jonathan Krebs told Parliament's law and order select committee
today that it was best to leave the discretion in the hands of the
judiciary. He pointed to studies that said serious crime increased
under similar laws. -
Stuff
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Sentencing and Parole Reform Bill
Witnesses' lives at risk under three strikes
policy : Law Society - 27 May
"Three strikes" legislation may have the opposite effect to its
intention should criminals decide to kill witnesses rather than
face severe punishment, MPs were told today. New Zealand Law
Society criminal law subcommittee convenor Jonathan Krebs was
asked to reappear before the law and order select committee today
after running out of time at a previous session. The committee is
considering the Sentencing and Parole Reform Bill which includes
ACT's three strikes policy under which offenders would be locked
away for life for the third serious offence that carried a five
year or longer sentence. The bill also makes it more difficult for
the worst violent offenders to get parole. -
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