Self Representation and McKenzie Friend Course Notes These notes were recorded from the Seminar arranged and funded by Jim Bagnall, at Remuera Bowling Club. Although these notes are now quite old, legislation has been meddled with and changed, but some things just seem to stay the same?

Archive of 2014
Prosecution of Crime Reduced – Judith Collins
Judith Collins26 MARCH, 2013 Conviction, sentencing stats show crime down Statistics released by the Ministry of Justice today show the number of people being charged in court has reduced by more than 20 per cent since 2009, Justice Minister Judith Collins says. The Conviction and Sentencing Statistics, published on the Statistics New Zealand website, show […]
CYF slammed with $60 000 in legal costs
The young couple, from Dunedin, have told the Sunday Star-Times of their harrowing two-year battle to regain custody of the girl, who was taken by Child, Youth and Family at just 14 weeks because the agency wrongly suspected she’d been abused. Stuff Report The parents had to sell their house in Dunedin and move to […]
James Wellsley WILLIAMS GFU665
(Was missing now found) I am not posting this simply out of concern for James – I’m a little staggered at the abysmal response. Firstly the Police media report is a little blase about a missing male, and I would question whether the later Stuff report was generated by a journalist or by his family […]
Interim Parenting Orders
Davison Report into familycaught$ – Christine Bristol And Alan Bristol
Given the significant changes in behaviour that occurred in familycaught$, both before the Bristol murders and suicide and after, it is important that this report receives close scrutiny. If it was marked in accordance with professional social science research standards, in my opinion it would receive an E rating. It is not fit for the […]
Impact of Media Reporting of Parental Murder Suicide
Death of Nelson mother and children a ‘tragedy of highest order’ 5:01 AM Tuesday Oct 3, 2000 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=153775 [Media reporting impact analysis] Rosemary Perkin, the 35-year-old Nelson woman found dead along with her three young daughters in their home, was an ordinary woman living an unremarkable life in suburban Stoke. Police believe Mrs Perkin killed […]
Hansard DV Act 1994
Canterbury Suicide Prevention Conference – Annette Beautrais
Female Teacher sleeps with boy student – No Jail?
Father murder/suicide
Obviously no one could possibly condone the tragic event of Ed Livingstone and his children. In the NZ Herald’s publications highlighting the shortcomings of this father over the past 2 days, and also in all the other reporting since this dreadful event took place I have been unable to find a reason for the protection […]
And news just in from the UK
Being a Step-parent
The dribbling rant of Billy Bragg
Defamation from Feminists is a Serious Crime
We Understand How Colin Craig Feels. We don’t necessarily support his politics. We don’t know whether he gives a damn about the harm done to men, though he probably recognizes the harm to families that has resulted from the denigration of men. However, those who speak up about men’s issues know what it’s like to […]
Take note NZ Family Court Judges ….
Media Bias Concerning Family Court
The injustice shown to men over the decades since the inception of the Family Court and the abuse done by that Court to children’s relationships with their fathers (and therefore to the children themselves) have been largely ignored by our media. Exposure of the Court’s sexism against men relied mainly on individual men’s letters to […]
Blackmailed Man Commits Suicide
Story here. http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/9724858/Blackmailer-rues-her-actions Angie Rose Wilson your actions have led to the death of this man. What ide really like to know is did you plan the consensual sexual relationship in order to make some cash from the outset or did you come up with a the plan afterwards? I am surprised you didn’t call […]
Scollay’s Murder of her Husband is Excused
This case really hits home how little value is given to male victims of women’s violence, and indeed how little value is placed on men’s lives. It also highlights the sexist double standard in our justice system, in this case allowing a de facto partial defence of provocation in the case of a female murderer […]
Registrars Review…….?
Karen Woodall on parental alientation
Bill Roache’s Nightmare is Over! But Is It?
Sexualisation of Girls – impacts on boys?
There has been discussion about commercial forces using sexualisation of girls for manipulation to increase sales of low intrinsic value products. Melinda Tankard Reist has given public presentations at Forum on the Family, her book Getting Real: Challenging the Sexualisation of Girls and a Sydney Morning Herald article Sex sells, but we’re selling out our […]