Whakaari/White Island owners appealing criminal conviction
The owners feel they were "wrongly charged" over the deadly eruption, lawyer says.
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The owners feel they were "wrongly charged" over the deadly eruption, lawyer says.
Government agencies like WorkSafe - which signed off tour companies' plans for the island - need to be held accountable, lawyer says.
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New Zealand Justice Evangelos Thomas criticised failures of safety audits given ‘obvious risks’ that led to 2019 fatal eruption
The company managing Whakaari/White Island has been convicted for one of the two charges it faced for health and safety failings in the lead-up to a fatal eruption in 2019.