When patience is not a virtue: Abolish divorce law s two-year stand down stuff.co.nz - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from stuff.co.nz Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The writer is a barrister.
WHENEVER freedom of speech becomes a little too free for the taste of the bench, it summons to its defence a very peculiar and archaic offence that of ‘scandalising the court’, a specialised breed of the general law of contempt, which allows the superior judiciary to summarily try any statement or published material that may, in their own opinion, bring their institution into disrepute or lower its authority and prestige.
Although it is very much a part of our constitutional framework (courtesy of the poorly conceived Article 204), its historical genesis lies not in any sound democratic principle but in the turbulent internal politics of 18th-century England, a time where only a fraction of people had the right to vote and where judges saw themselves as extensions of the monarch of the day, not merely in theory but also in practice, and thus, felt entitled to a rather regal form of decorum and reverence.
Press Release – Health Coalition Aotearoa Oversight of the marketing of alcohol, an addictive drug linked to 800 deaths per year in New Zealand, has been left in the hands of alcohol advertisers and producers by successive Governments. This approach is destined to fail our wellbeing, as seen …
Oversight of the marketing of alcohol, an addictive drug linked to 800 deaths per year in New Zealand, has been left in the hands of alcohol advertisers and producers by successive Governments. This approach is destined to fail our wellbeing, as seen in the Advertising Standards Authority’s (ASA) latest revision of its voluntary Code for Advertising and Promotion of Alcohol.
Wednesday, 16 December 2020, 1:15 pm
Oversight of the marketing of alcohol, an addictive drug
linked to 800 deaths per year in New Zealand, has been left
in the hands of alcohol advertisers and producers by
successive Governments. This approach is destined to fail
our wellbeing, as seen in the Advertising Standards
Authority’s (ASA) latest revision of its voluntary Code
for Advertising and Promotion of Alcohol.
The revised
code continues its narrow focus on the content and timing of
alcohol marketing, amounting to little more than rearranging
deck chairs on the Titanic. Alcohol marketing, including
alcohol branding of sports through sponsorships, is
appearing any time in our physical and digital environments.