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Government botches response to Lake Alice torture finding

The heads of Crown Law and the Ministry of Justice can’t work out between them whether the abuse of children at the Lake Alice psychiatric hospital was torture. After 50 years the Government still refuses to say that what happened at Lake Alice was torture.

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Complaint laid against Solicitor-General over withholding of Lake Alice evidence from police

Lake Alice survivor Leoni McInroe continues her fight to hold the Crown accountable for its failure to take responsibility for state-sponsored torture, laying a complaint with the Law Society about Solicitor-General Una Jagose.

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Crown responder disbelieved abuse allegations

As the Government begins to respond to the Royal Commission's findings and recommendations, the person leading that response was found to have disbelieved victims of state abuse and their advocates when she was in a senior role at MSD. Aaron Smale reports.

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Fight over $28m high country lease hits High Court

Czech multi-millionaire enters legal wrangle with Crown over a supposed reserve

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Crown Law overturned criminal conviction that exposed it to legal liability

Crown Law overturned a criminal conviction for sexual abuse 10 years after the perpetrator was found guilty when the conviction exposed the Crown to legal liability in a civil case.

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Crown Law blocks the police in rare, costly legal standoff

Exclusive: Did the Government’s legal agency withhold evidence of the rape, torture and abuse of children from police investigations? Aaron Smale unravels an extraordinary paper trail.

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Officials' finger pointing over abuse scandals

Comment: Today the country's top public servant fronts up at the Royal Commission into abuse in state care. Aaron Smale says officials are still running interference

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After decades of abuse, insensitive officials anger survivors

Pressure builds ahead of the country’s top public servant appearing at hearings this week

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