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1 week ago |
rnz.co.nz | Anneke Smith
Children were tortured with electric shocks and painful injections at Lake Alice Unit in the 1970sThe Crown formally acknowledged this torture last year and went on to set up a redress processOne survivor is challenging this process in court, arguing it breaches international human rights lawsA Flaxmere man tortured as a child at the Lake Alice Psychiatric Hospital is taking the Crown to court, arguing its redress framework is unlawful.
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3 weeks ago |
radionz.co.nz | Anneke Smith
Health Minister Simeon Brown has not ruled out introducing a Patient Safety Commissioner to boost public confidence in the health system. The Health Consumer Advocacy Alliance petitioned Parliament last year, asking it to establish a commissioner to reduce medical injury and harm, heading off problems before people get hurt.
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3 weeks ago |
rnz.co.nz | Anneke Smith
Health Minister Simeon Brown has not ruled out introducing a Patient Safety Commissioner to boost public confidence in the health system. The Health Consumer Advocacy Alliance petitioned Parliament last year, asking it to establish a commissioner to reduce medical injury and harm, heading off problems before people get hurt.
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1 month ago |
nzherald.co.nz | Anneke Smith
Interim name suppression orders prevented the media from identifying Jago for more than two years until he abandoned his fight for ongoing secrecy in February. Jago maintains his innocence and has signalled he plans to appeal his convictions and sentence in the Court of Appeal. Today, Jago’s lawyer Ian Brookie confirmed the appeal had been set down for June 17 in Auckland.
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1 month ago |
radionz.co.nz | Anneke Smith
Warning: This story deals with sexual abuse. Former ACT Party president Tim Jago will argue he's suffered a miscarriage of justice in the Court of Appeal in June. Jago was found guilty of sexually abusing two teenage boys he knew through a sports club in the 1990s, after a week-long jury trial in Auckland last year. He was convicted of eight charges of indecent assault and jailed for 2 1/2 years by Judge David Sharp.
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