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  Jury decides that threat of global warming justifies breaking the law - by frog

  
  
  
  A jury in the UK decided that campaigners were justified in breaking the law because global warming is such a big threat. I can see the lawyers and the police rolling their eyes with such a precedent setting decision. The Independent reports: The defence of “lawful excuse” under the Criminal Damage Act 1971 allows damage [...] read more
  September 13, 2008 2:38 pm - 22 Comments
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  Winston and electoral funding law - by frog

  
  
  
  From my perspective, Russell Brown managed to get right to the nub of the Winston Peters affair this morning. [T]he perfectly legal means by which, according to Audrey Young’s Herald story, $80,000, probably from the Vela family, was split into eight chunks and channelled through linked companies to avoid declaration, does demonstrate quite what could [...] read more
  September 9, 2008 12:10 pm - 7 Comments