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The solicitor-general
is defying a select committee call for the Peter Ellis child abuse case to be
fast-tracked to the Privy Council, the former childcare worker's lawyer says. Judith Ablett-Kerr, QC,
said last night she had received a letter from the solicitor-general saying
an application for leave to appeal to the Privy Council would be treated the
same as any other and legal aid was not being approved. That meant the
solicitor-general, Terence Arnold, QC, was not having regard for the
recommendations of the justice and electoral committee, which rejected last
month a petition seeking a royal commission into the case but said it should
go to the Privy Council using legal aid. Mr Ellis, a former
Christchurch Civic Creche worker, was convicted in 1993 of abusing children
at the centre and served two-thirds of a 10-year sentence. He has always
maintained the abuse did not happen. |
