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Injunctions to continue in Tom Phillips case

An injunction preventing publication of certain details in the investigation into Tom Phillips remains in force after High Court Justice Helen Cull confirmed on Friday that the order, first granted on 8 September, continues until further notice.

Phillips died after a police shootout on 8 September.

Separately, the Family Court in Hamilton issued an additional injunction on 15 September, with Judge Garry Collin releasing a redacted judgment stressing the overwhelming public interest must yield to the privacy and welfare of Phillips’ children.

Describing the court as their “guardian,” Judge Collin imposed wide-ranging publication restrictions—covering media, police, Oranga Tamariki and the public, including any documentary, film or book references—to ensure the vulnerable children can reintegrate without ongoing scrutiny, leaving any jurisdictional questions to the High Court.

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  1. Considering it took four years to catch Phillips and ended up a fluke if only through a bungled burglary
    I’d say there would be quite a few skeletons in the closet
    More likely cockroaches
    That do not react well to light
    And that some people do not want made visible
    Just makes people more determined to find out
    Like telling someone to keep out of a certain room

  2. Health & Safety tyranny under any sort of ‘reason’, just to make systematic duress ‘legal’.
    What is Godzone becoming?

    • Its all about bankrupting small to medium sized businesses
      Like covid
      The backbones of supposed democracy
      Climate change policies significantly affect small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs), both through regulatory pressures and emerging opportunities
      These impacts range from compliance costs and supply chain shifts to new market incentives and customer expectations and operational costs
      For Regulatory Compliance SMEs which make up 97% of NZ businesses
      May need to track and reduce emissions, especially in sectors like manufacturing, construction, and transport
      Policies such as carbon reporting, energy efficiency standards, and waste reduction mandates can require new systems or audits
      Climate change policies directly affect Health and Safety for SME’s

  3. Sorry, the kids haven’t been sufficiently MK-Ultra’d yet.

    They’re gonna need a few more months of conditioning and being coached on what to say when the inevitable Netflix documentary starts filming.

    “Our Dad was evil.”

    “He was the devil incarnate.”

    “Thank God the government saved us…” etc.

    Historically the stats suggest that the programming will fail on at least one of the kids, there will be a short blurb at the beginning of the docco saying something like “little Johnny still struggles to open up to this day and has declined to be on camera…”

    It’s all so predictable.

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