Bail, stay on bail, and the judicial discretion
The principal use of bail in modern legal systems is to secure the freedom, pending trial, of one arrested and charged with a criminal offence.
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The principal use of bail in modern legal systems is to secure the freedom, pending trial, of one arrested and charged with a criminal offence.
Rosemary Penwarden has been granted electronically monitored bail to her home in Dunedin.
A Dunedin grandmother who concreted herself to a Wellington road as part of a climate protest has been freed from custody.
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Court told the alleged incident took place in front of young children and as a number of people were leaving a nearby creche