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A challenge to a government
compensation offer is under way in the High Court in Auckland, with the Crown
defending the size of its offer to three women who were wrongly imprisoned. Lucy Akatere, Tanya
Vini and McCushla Fuataha were aged 15 and 14 when they were sent to jail for
a robbery they didn't commit. Last year they rejected
a Crown compensation offer of $160,000 each. The women's lawyer
Rodney Harrison QC says the court should dismiss the criteria used to
calculate the compensation. But lawyers for the
Crown argue the cabinet-approved guidelines are not the business of the
judiciary. |
