May 22, 2008

Correction: Private prosecution case dismissed

The Court News website incorrectly reported on May 16 that a stay of proceedings had been issued in an unusual private prosecution taken against a man who had earlier admitted taking a laptop computer.

In fact, the ruling in the Christchurch District Court that day by Judge David Saunders was that the charge brought by David Young against Joshua Neil Porter was dismissed under section 347 of the Crimes Act.

Mr Young had charged Mr Porter with denying access to a computer system. Mr Porter had served time in prison for the offence but the stolen laptop has never been recovered.