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Thursday, August 1, 2002
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Youth Sexual Offending Rises
Police and sexual offending counsellors say that numbers of reported sexual offences committed by under-17-year-olds have swelled, with the greatest growth in the number of offenders under 13 and children as young as 10 receiving treatment.
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Top Legal Headlines
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Energy Information Not Displayed
A survey by the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority of 2,056 appliances in shops in Auckland, Wellington, and Christchurch between May and June has shown that many retailers are breaking the law by failing to display energy efficiency labels.
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Paua Poachers Convicted
Five men were convicted in Porirua District Court yesterday for attempting to sell paua to an undercover fisheries officer. The prosecutions were part of a wider fisheries investigation, known as Operation Pacman, which began last August to find those involved in supplying the black market with paua and lobsters, and to infiltrate their networks.
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Paua Poachers Convicted
Five men were convicted in Porirua District Court yesterday for attempting to sell paua to an undercover fisheries officer. The prosecutions were part of a wider fisheries investigation, known as Operation Pacman, which began last August to find those involved in supplying the black market with paua and lobsters, and to infiltrate their networks.
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Sacked Teacher Returns To Class
A Hamilton woman who claims she had an affair with her physical education teacher 25 years ago says she is amazed that he is teaching again at a Far North school. Anita Joblin said that the hardest thing for her was knowing that Conrad Petersen had been allowed to continue teaching after he was sacked from Buller High School and the decision was upheld in the Employment Court.
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Moratorium Review Suggested Solution
Government sources have suggested a “political review” of the current GE moratorium before it expires in October next year. The United Future Party says that it wants a review to ensure proper regulatory measures are in place before the moratorium is lifted, and the Green Party says it will vote against any party that lifts the moratorium.
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Bugger All Substance To Complaint
The Broadcasting Authority has ordered Aucklander Paul Schwabe to pay Radio New Zealand $150 in costs after his ninth complaint about the use of the word “bugger” was found to be unsubstantiated.
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Hunt Still On For Name Dropper
Police are still seeking to discover who named a potential kidnap victim, known only as Mr X in New Zealand because of a name suppression order, on a British website. Dominion Post columnist Jane Clifton was originally named as the source, but a spokesman for the website said that she was in no way to blame, and that the website had made the decision to name Mr X as the information was in the public domain.
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Intending Boatpeople Warned
Foreign Minister Phil Goff says that he has warned a boatload of Sri Lankan migrants who arrived in Dili, East Timor, seeking to travel to New Zealand for work, that they will not be granted access. Mr Goff said that as no evidence that the group were political refugees, the Immigration Service would be treating them as economic migrants.
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