Tony Wall16:18, May 07 2021
Stuff
A high school teacher accused of sexual grooming of a student received a 'formal warning' like this, ruled illegal by a judge after it was shared with other parties.
Police have appealed a decision by a High Court judge ruling that their much-used “formal warnings” are illegal.
But at the same time they are launching a review into the practice, to ensure the warnings are issued “consistently”.
Stuffrevealed in April that Justice Paul Davison had found that the warnings – issued 20,000 times in the past 10 years to people who hadn’t been convicted of any crime – had no basis in statutory or common law and were a breach of the Bill of Rights Act.