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15-Dec-2008

Former National Party leader Don Brash and former front-bench MP Katherine Rich are calling on new Justice Minister Simon Power to order a commission of inquiry into the Peter Ellis case, warning that the conviction is continuing to impact on the legal system.
Read the full story/Visit the site - Christchurch Press

15-Dec-2008

Justice Minister Simon Power has agreed to consider a request for a Commission of Inquiry into the Peter Ellis case.
Read the full story/Visit the site - Christchurch Press

17-Dec-2007

An Otago University academic has aired fresh doubts about evidential interviews of children at the centre of the 1993 Peter Ellis sex abuse case.
Read the full story/Visit the site - Stuff Website

13-Dec-2007

Researcher Ross Francis discloses new and important information from his research into the Peter Ellis case. Last week www.peterellis.org.nz spokesman Richard Christie revealed details of some of this new evidence, which appears in this month's edition of the New Zealand Law Journal. [1]
Read the full story/Visit the site - Peterellis.org.nz

7-Dec-2007

Peterellis.org.nz spokesman Richard Christie reports that new research into the Peter Ellis case casts doubt on the safety of Ellis' convictions. The research reveals that Sir Thomas Eichelbaum's Inquiry was carried out in a manner designed to bury rather than examine doubts previously raised by three of the world's foremost experts on children's testimony. It calls into question the conduct of officials and has ensured that the case will not be going away anytime soon.
Read the full story/Visit the site - Peterellis.org.nz

6-Apr-2006

The final chapter in the Christchurch Civic Childcare Centre case could be played out in the Privy Council.
Read the full story/Visit the site - The Press

16-Sep-2005

Radio New Zealand has lost an appeal against a Broadcasting Standards Authority ruling that it apologise to convicted child molester Peter Ellis.
Radio NZ had argued that an apology was a voluntary expression of contrition and to be ordered to say sorry, when it was not, amounted to dishonesty.
Read the full story/Visit the site - NZ Herald
Related Site - Broadcasting Standards Authority

21-Aug-2005

The Christchurch Civic Creche Case.
Supporting requests for a Royal Commission of Inquiry The failure of the Justice System to exonerate Peter Ellis.
Read the full story/Visit the site - Peter Ellis Org: Seeking Justice for Peter Ellis

21-Aug-2005

by Lynley Hood
A City Possessed is a strong, compelling and shocking story about one of New Zealand's most high-profile criminal cases - a story of child abuse allegations, gender politics and the law. In detailing the events and debates leading up to and surrounding the Christchurch Civic Creche case, Lynley Hood shows how such a case could happen, and why. Her penetrating analysis of the social and legal processes by which the conviction of Peter Ellis was obtained, and has been repeatedly upheld, has far-reaching implications - not only for our justice system, but for the way in which we see ourselves.
Read the full story/Visit the site - A City Possessed: The Christchurch Civic Creche Case

13-Aug-2005

The lawyer for convicted childcare worker Peter Ellis has asked Attorney-General Michael Cullen whether he will accept a parliamentary recommendation that the way be cleared for Ellis to appeal to the Privy Council.
Ellis was convicted in 1993 of sexually molesting children at the Christchurch Civic Creche, where he worked.
Read the full story/Visit the site - NZ Herald

9-Aug-2005

The lawyer for Peter Ellis says they will go to the Privy Council if the Attorney General adopts the recommendations of the Justice and Electoral Select Committee.
Ellis, a former worker at the Christchurch Civic Creche, served nearly seven years in jail after being convicted in 1993 of offences against children.
Read the full story/Visit the site - TVNZ

8-Aug-2005

Convicted childcare worker Peter Ellis will find out today whether there is political support for a government inquiry into his case.
After two years of behind-closed-doors deliberation, the justice and electoral select committee chaired by Christchurch Central MP Tim Barnett is ready to make its recommendations on whether a Government inquiry into Ellis' convictions for sexually abusing children in his care is warranted.
Read the full story/Visit the site - The Press

23-Jul-2005

Dunedin author Lynley Hood is not concerned about a lack of detail in a National Party promise of an inquiry into the case of Peter Ellis.
National leader Don Brash promised an inquiry last week in an e-mail to Christchurch-based Ellis supporter, music tutor Richard Christie.
Read the full story/Visit the site - Stuff Website

22-Jul-2005

A promised inquiry into the Peter Ellis civic creche case under a National-led government will be a waste of money unless it is a commission of inquiry, Mr Ellis' lawyer says.
National Party leader Don Brash told a Peter Ellis supporter in an e-mailed letter that he intended a "full inquiry" into the circumstances of Mr Ellis' child abuse convictions if National succeeded in forming a government.
Read the full story/Visit the site - The Dominion Post

22-Jul-2005

The lawyer for convicted sex offender Peter Ellis says any inquiry into the Civic Creche case must take the form of a full Commission of Inquiry.
National leader Don Brash made the promise of an inquiry last week in an email to Christchurch-based Ellis supporter, music tutor Richard Christie.
Read the full story/Visit the site - NZ Herald

12-May-2005

Is the Government ever going to swallow its pride and vindicate Peter Ellis, or are they happy to sit back and wait for history to repeat itself?
By Anthony Frith
Early last month, convicted child molester Peter Ellis suffered a heart attack. Ellis may be a chain smoker who is partial to red meat and the odd tipple, but the most probable cause of his condition appears to be stress. Ellis has waited nearly two years for a select committee to decide whether to recommend a Royal Commission of Inquiry into his 1992 conviction of multiple counts of child abuse. His case is almost unanimously regarded as the greatest miscarriage of justice this country has seen since Arthur Allan Thomas. Peter Ellis has been waiting a long, long time for justice, and at the rate things are going, time may be running out.
Read the full story/Visit the site - Varsity.co.nz

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