Category Archives: Criminal Law

Glen William Cooper – sentenced.

Posted on December 16, 2013 by Ivan McIntosh

Further to this post, Glenn Cooper was sentenced to nineteen months jail for his five guilty pleas on charges of dishonestly using a document. Short article regarding the offences can be found here. Congratulations to the Serious Fraud office, and … Continue reading →

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A person best avoided – Glenn William Cooper

Posted on January 17, 2013 by Ivan McIntosh

Glenn William Cooper (39) plead guilty in the Manukau District Court yesterday to charges laid by the Serious Fraud Office of dishonestly using a document. Essentially Cooper, through various associated interests, bought motel units and onsold them contemporaneously to vulnerable … Continue reading →

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Kim Dotcom – The case against…

Posted on January 31, 2012 by Ivan McIntosh

Possibly somewhat short of being as pure as the driven snow… Nice to see Bernard Hickey weighing in, in his own inimitable style, on the Kim Dotcom saga, and what Bernard has to say makes a lot of sense.  Dotcom … Continue reading →

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Financial Markets Authority & Serious Fraud Office formalise co-operation

Posted on January 20, 2012 by Ivan McIntosh

Well this is very annoying.  I managed to delete the content of my own post, leaving only the heading…..just how I am not sure. It was originally considerably longer than this, but essentially the SFO and FMA have worked out … Continue reading →

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Teagate!

Posted on November 21, 2011 by Ivan McIntosh

This really isn’t my area, so I’m not going to opine on it personally.  The whole storm in the proverbial has, however, generated a bunch of legal comment from those concerned with media and/or privacy law. First and one of … Continue reading →

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Proceeds of Crime

Posted on September 1, 2011 by Ivan McIntosh

A rare excursion into the criminal law, with a recent decision that touches on property, and the seizing thereof by the Crown when people have been naughty. The Proceeds of Crime Act 1991 (and now its replacement) has been around … Continue reading →

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Burning the New Zealand Flag?

Posted on May 11, 2011 by Ivan McIntosh

Interesting commentary here from Stephen Franks on the Supreme Court’s decision to acquit Victoria Morse for flag-burning and tooting to drown out an ANZAC dawn service in 2007. Basically, not only is flag burning now perfectly allowable (something I have no real … Continue reading →

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