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February 8 2006
2005-1011 - Otago Daily Times --$500,000
figure rejected by wrongly jailed trio
NZPA - Three young women wrongfully convicted and jailed want the High Court
at Auckland to quash a compensation package worth almost $500,000 and order
the Government to make a new offer. Lucy Akatere, Tania Vini and McCushla
Fuataha served seven months in prison after being jointly convicted of an
aggravated robbery in Three Kings in August 1999.
Rodney
Harrison, QC, yesterday told the court the guidelines were unworkable,
inconsistent and arbitrary. It is our case that sense cannot be made
[of the guidelines], he said. Dr
Harrison said for periods of wrongful imprisonment of less than a year, the
daily compensation figure worked out to be $143. In his experience,
compensation for a wrongful arrest and one day in custody would be
$10,000-$15,000
2005-1011 - NZ Herald - Freed
women seek compo rethink
Three
young woman wrongfully convicted and jailed want the High Court to quash a
compensation package worth more than $400,000 and order the Government to
make a new offer. Lucy Akatere, Tania Vini and McCushla Fuataha served seven
months in prison after being convicted of an aggravated robbery in Three
Kings in August 1999.
The
women are challenging the Government guidelines used to reach compensation
figures.
.The civil claim does not seek any particular compensation
sum but asks the court to direct Cabinet to reconsider the offer
2005-1010 - One News - Women
challenge compo offer
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
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
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