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Earthwork company must pay $152,500 for employee’s death
An earthmoving company must pay $152,500 for the death of a Filipino employee in a workshop accident at a northern Southland goldmine.
Renee Duckmanton murder trial date shifted
The trial of a man accused of the murder of sex worker Renee Larissa Duckmanton will be the first trial in the Christchurch High Court’s new premises next year.
Safety standards ‘sometimes almost impossible’ says judge
A judge has spoken of the “sometimes almost impossible standards” imposed on employers in safeguarding employees who sometimes cause their own workplace injuries.
Card used soon after street robbery
A woman who used a bank card stolen only an hour earlier in a gunpoint street robbery, has been sentenced to two months’ home detention in a residential rehabilitation programme.
Pit bull in hiding, owner jailed
Karma the dangerous American Pit Bull is in hiding from a death sentence while her owner begins a three-year ten-month jail term for his own towering temper.
Not-so-clever burglar advised to go straight
A judge has told a burglar that he should consider going straight because he’s not very good at burglary.
Guilty verdicts from woman’s 10 months of abuse
A jury has accepted a foreign woman’s evidence of enduring 10 months of abuse at the hands of her New Zealand travelling companion.
Garden gnome defence goes to appeal
The Court of Appeal is being asked to consider whether another man could be accused of fatally bashing Michelle Lawrence, after Timothy Joseph Foley had struck her twice with a garden gnome.
Jail for large scale party pill offending
A Riccarton manager accused of being “the driving force” in a party pill production scheme has been jailed for four years.
Contractor admits earthwork offences
Kaiapoi business owner Dave Clemence has admitted Resource Management Act charges relating to earthworks on three North Canterbury properties.
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