A look back at the Covid-19 pandemic, five years on from New Zealand's first case
Five-years-ago on Friday, New Zealand recorded its first Covid-19 case. It launched the country into a time of uncertainty, ...
SovCits are fighting the law, but the law's winning
It is an increasingly common story of so-called sovereign citizens - or 'SovCits' - whose legal arguments are based on a ...
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Covid-19
The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, began in late 2019 in Wuhan, China. The first case of the virus was identified in December 2019 and was linked to a seafood market in ...
Sovereign citizens challenge NZ courts with fringe legal claims
I don’t think we’ve reached the point where this is having a material impact on the courts necessarily, but it is clear that these sorts of arguments are more common.” The phrase “sovereign citizen” ...