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- The Honourable Raynor Asher has been appointed chairman of the New Zealand Media Council and will take up his role on July 1. Mr Asher was previously a Judge of the Court of Appeal, a position he retired from earlier this month. The appointment was announced by the Council’s governance arm, the NZ Media Association Incorporated.
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The Honourable Raynor Asher has been appointed chairman of the New Zealand Media Council and will take up his role on July 1. Mr Asher was previously a Judge of the Court of Appeal, a position he retired from earlier this month.
The current chairman of the New Zealand Media Council, Sir John Hansen, is set to be replaced by the Honourable Raynor Asher. Asher was previously a judge of...
Mar 4, 2020 · The former president of the NZ Bar Association and ex-Judge of the Court of Appeal, Raynor Asher has been appointed chairman of the New Zealand Media Council. Mr Asher retired as a Judge of the Court of Appeal earlier this month.
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- Sting in The Tail
Slater appealed to the High Court, claiming: Essentially, Justice Asheragreed, arguing that: He further argued that:
In making his decision, Justice Asher looked to recent law reform and legislation in New Zealand and elsewhere. In Australia, changes to Commonwealth and state evidence acts have resulted in definitional differences on matters of employment and professional status. Justice Asher noted that the Australian Commonwealth Evidence Act 1995 Section 126Gd...
But while the principal issue in this story relates to the definition of a journalist, a secondary issue that applied to Slater in the New Zealand judgment is relevant to all journalists. Though Slater won the right to be called a journalist, the sting in the tail lay in the fact that the court used its discretion notto afford Slater privilege – ju...
The most astonishing aspect of Justice Raynor Asher's decision cancelling the contract for the supply of laboratory services to three Auckland health boards was that he had been asked to...
Raynor Asher graduated BA, LLB (Hons) from the Auckland Law School in 1972. He was a Senior Scholar in Law. He was also the New Zealand Harkness Fellow to the United States in 1973-74 and graduated with a Masters of Laws from the University of California (Berkeley) in 1974.
Hon Raynor Asher, QC. I was appointed to the High Court Bench in 2005 and to the Court of Appeal in 2016. I have been a Commercial List judge, Chair of the Rules Committee and Chair of the Media and Courts Committee. I retired in March 2019.
