One of NZ’s worst miscarriages of justice goes to trial
One of New Zealand’s worst wrongful convictions returned to court yesterday, 40 years after the murder and subsequent police investigation that led to it.
30 June 2026
New Zealand
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Former police officers on trial for wrongful conviction of Alan Hall
The two officers are charged with perverting the course of justice in one of New Zealand’s most high profile wrongful convictions.
29 June 2026
Review body may help establish other wrongful conviction cases, professor says
A law professor hopes an independent commission aimed at dealing with cases of wrongful conviction will stop cases like Alan Hall's taking decades to rectify.
19 August 2023
Peter waited 31 years to have his name cleared. When it happened, he was already dead
Peter Ellis waited 31 years to have his name cleared; when the Supreme Court quashed his convictions he was already dead.
7 October 2022
How a murder case was unravelled by a police interview
How a police interview unravelled the case built in the investigation of the 'execution-style' murder of Lois Tolley.
2 October 2022
Alan Hall case: role of crown lawyers in overturned conviction to be investigated by independent inquiry
Inquiry into conviction of innocent man jailed for 19 years will investigate why crucial witness evidence not given to defence.
14 July 2022
Woman jailed for year of lies, false complaints, harassment
22 Jun, 2022 03:48 AM2 minutes to read
22 June 2022
Wrongful murder conviction: 'Extremely troubling' issues emerge
The inquiry into Alan Hall's quashed murder conviction must unravel extremely troubling issues about how the case against him was run.
9 June 2022
Another CCRC established … but still not in Australia
New Zealand's Criminal Cases Review Commission opens for applications on 1 July 2020, leaving Australia the outlier with no equivalent body.
24 May 2020