Court Report: More Dotcom and more suppression
Hamish McNicol talks about Dotcom's attempts to get money for his estranged wife, and Ministry suppression breaches on NBR Radio.
The High Court may still be on holiday but one thing NBR readers can be sure will never take a break is the Kim Dotcom saga.
On Wednesday, an urgent application Mr Dotcom filed just days before a District Court judge ruled he was eligible for extradition surfaced as judgments from last year continue to filter through the system.
It shows Mr Dotcom had tried to alter his freezing orders in order to secure a near $740,000 loan he could give to his estranged wife, Mona, to buy shares in Mega.
But Justice Patricia Courtney dismissed the application, with Mona’s shareholding in Mega diluting from more than 7% to less than 1% as a result.
Court reporter Hamish McNicol discusses this latest development in the never-ending Dotcom saga
He also looks at the number of times the Ministry of Justice breached name suppression last year.
The four instances were up from just one case in 2014, but the Law Society has defended the breaches, which are relatively light in the context of the thousands of judgments published by the ministry last year.
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Thu, 28 Jan 2016
Thu, 28 Jan 2016
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