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Queenstown suppressed indecency case

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In July 2014, the defendant said that everyone in his home town knew he was the "prominent man" described in the media and that he had been fired from a job by an employer who had heard that he was the defendant. He said his lawyer was "on the warpath" for those who had published his name online.
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met the defendant. Cunliffe said he had arranged for the person to meet a Labour candidate but that he had no idea about the person's controversial background and that had he known, no such meeting would have taken place.
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preventing the publication (in New Zealand) of the man's name, occupation and former occupations, anything likely to lead to his identity, or cast speculation on any other person of a similar class or type.
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in Wellington against the conviction and for permanent name suppression. The defendant's lawyer argued that his client had pleaded guilty to avoid a public trial assuming he would be offered diversion or a
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said New Zealanders would not be breaching the suppression by reading such information, but that the situation showed the difficulty of enforcing suppression orders in the modern age and across borders.
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The complainant said she was interviewed by police a few days later and on their advice telephoned the defendant. The defendant was originally going to be referred to a
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The man re-appeared in Dunedin District Court in March 2014 where he was ordered to pay $ 6500 to the complainant and discharged without conviction with a permanent
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and later discharged without conviction and given permanent name suppression. The case fuelled discussion and controversy in New Zealand over the use by courts of
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The complainant waived her right to automatic name suppression in October 2014, enabling her to tell her story, and her name (Louise Hemsley) became public.
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was accused of, pleaded guilty to and was convicted of "performing an indecent act intended to insult or offend" against a woman in
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The complainant felt that the verdict was "not really a win" and that the defendant was "a dirty bastard and people should know."
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Fuelled by the Harris case, people in New Zealand began distributing the defendant's name on Internet sites including
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guilty to a charge of performing an indecent act intended to insult or offend, a charge under Section 126 the
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her, and placed his hand inside her underwear, then as she pushed him away, he placed her hand on to his
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District Court in December 2014 charged with knowingly breaching suppression orders under the
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without conviction. The appeal court referred the case back to the Dunedin District Court.
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Rodney Hide: Forget Rolf, Maggie. We have our own sexual predator to name and shame
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website, dated 2014-11-17, viewed 2014-12-01; Henare not named in cited article
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In August 2012, the accused appeared in the Dunedin District Court and
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Labour chief meets sex offender but says he didn’t know background
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Sex offence victim calls for high profile offender to be named
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in Britain and the subsequent trial of Australian entertainer
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taunted her in a newspaper column, urging her to use her
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Sexual assault case by a New Zealand celebrity, 2011–2014
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tongue kissing
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oral sex
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Alexandra
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