{"id":46415,"date":"2022-07-14T20:14:53","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T11:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/14\/alan-hall-miscarriage-of-justice-inquiry-to-look-into-new-zealand-crown-lawyers"},"modified":"2022-07-14T20:14:53","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T11:14:53","slug":"alan-hall-miscarriage-of-justice-inquiry-to-look-into-new-zealand-crown-lawyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46415","title":{"rendered":"Alan Hall: miscarriage of justice inquiry to look into New Zealand crown lawyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inquiry into conviction of innocent man jailed for 19 years will investigate why crucial witness evidence not given to defence<\/p>\n<p>The role of crown lawyers in the prosecution of Alan Hall, a New Zealander who spent 19 years in jail for a murder he did not commit, will be investigated by an independent inquiry, the country\u2019s solicitor-general has announced.<\/p>\n<p>The crown has released the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crownlaw.govt.nz\/assets\/Uploads\/Media-Statements\/Terms-of-Reference_-Alan-Hall-inquiry-13-July-2022.PDF\">terms of reference<\/a> for its unprecedented investigation into its involvement in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/15\/a-brothers-36-year-fight-against-one-of-new-zealands-worst-miscarriages-of-justice\">one of New Zealand\u2019s worst miscarriages of justice<\/a>, as it attempts to understand why crucial witness evidence was not given to the defence. The inquiry will be conducted by Nicolette Levy QC.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/14\/alan-hall-miscarriage-of-justice-inquiry-to-look-into-new-zealand-crown-lawyers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inquiry into conviction of innocent man jailed for 19 years will investigate why crucial witness evidence not given to defenceThe role of crown lawyers in the prosecution of Alan Hall, a New Zealander who spent 19 years in jail for a murder he did not &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46415"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46431,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46415\/revisions\/46431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}