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Civil Liberties Australia article re Taylor Case 7 March
Civil Liberties Australia March 2013 newsletter page 14
CL Australia article re taylor NZ Tobacco Ban Case
Prisoner Taylor fights on: refuses to run out of puff
The NZ prisoner who won the right to smoke in jail is going back to court to have it enforced.
The NZ High Court agreed with Arthur Taylor in December 2012 that the NZ Corrections
Department had unlawfully violated the rights of more than 6000 prisoners since 1 July 2011. But
Corrections has failed to honour the court ruling, which was not stayed, and instead has passed an
amendment to regulations purporting to make tobacco an unauthorised item in prisons.
Taylor will be heard again in the High Court on 7 March, arguing that Corrections is not following
the rule of law, in that its new regulations are subservient to Acts of Parliament o
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