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| Power pledges bail law change |
| By NZPA |
| Published: 11/20/2008 |
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NEW ZEALAND - Parliament will sit for two weeks in December and Justice Minister Simon Power today said repealing recent changes that made it easier for criminals to get bail would be the top law and order priority. "We think it's very important that the Government moves early on to send a signal really early on that public safety is the paramount consideration in our justice policy deliberations," he told NZPA. "We've long signalled our concern with the previous changes in this area." Those Bail Act changes raised the bar for judges wanting to keep an alleged offender in jail while they awaited trial. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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