This booklet details the latest action by the "Dirty Politics Brigade", Craig said, adding: "What they have done is not legal and therefore court action is being taken against them.". I was born in Montrose, Scotland and immigrated to Canada with my family at the age of ten. In 1969 he became a director of Investment Development and Technical Services, which provided financial advice in the developing world. On 7 July, Craig also sent a personal letter to Conservative Party members to apologize for his behaviour and to gauge whether he had sufficient support to return to the Party's leadership.
He also alleged that Craig's defence team had tried to link him to the Dirty Politics scandal by alleging that he had taken part in a smear campaign against the former head of the Serious Fraud Office. [53], In June 2015, Colin Craig drew criticism from elements of the Conservative Party when he participated in a sauna interview hosted by TV3 reporter David Farrier, which they felt badly reflected on Craig's public image. Craig asked the Court of Appeal to overturn a decision of High Court Justice Kit Toogood, who found he had been defamed by political blogger Cameron Slater twice but declined to make an award. [71] The following day, Stringer submitted a dossier of documents to both the Police and the Electoral Commission.
However, Justice Toogood declined to award any damages to Craig for the defamation, saying much of the damage caused to his reputation was by his own actions.
A jury of seven men and five women were selected for the trial, which is scheduled to take place for five weeks. However, he added, what came next saw Craig "guilty of moderately serious sexual harassment". [3], Craig is a millionaire who owns companies that manage high-rise buildings.
[128] [129], Jacky Stiekema (described in blog posts by Stringer as "Grandma Quilts" to protect her privacy [130] ) had previously worked as a senior trust account manager at Craig's Centurion company.
She has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Papakura since 2002, and was a government minister under John Key and Bill English. [11] According to One News, Craig has since challenged the legality of Stringer and the board's actions; claiming that Stringer had been suspended from the Party.
[140] [141] [142]. Vocational School and became a shipwright and boatbuilder. Mills also contended that Williams had broken MacGregor's trust by passing information on her relationship with Craig to other Conservative Party officials and Cameron Slater's blog Whale Oil. Craig also agreed to pay Vodafone's legal bills. "Because the core allegations about Mr Craig's relationship with Ms MacGregor and related matters had received widespread publication throughout New Zealand, I have found that Mr Craig's decision to distribute the booklet to every New Zealand household was a justifiable response.". Bubble breaks: 55 NZ passengers travelled to Melbourne, 25 to Perth, Matthew Hooton: Triumphant Greens face difficult choice. [25], Following a series of child poverty items on current affairs show Campbell Live and a fundraising effort from the show to raise money for school lunches, [26] Craig said children sent to school without lunch should go without. Two statements relating to Craig’s treatment of MacGregor, published on Slater’s now-defunct blog, Whale Oil, were defamatory, Justice Toogood ruled. Phil Goff was elected. In addition, Craig also circulated a booklet, entitled "Dirty Politics and Hidden Agendas", which he claimed outlined a "campaign of defamatory lies" against him. [91] [92], On 19 September, Craig denied sending any sex text messages to Rachel McGregor but during cross-examination was unable to provide evidence supporting his claim. It culminated in the spectacular resignation of MacGregor and media circus just two days before election day.
[33], Craig has been known to take offence at satirical articles directed at him, including a piece on the satirical website The Civilian , which he said published a story designed "to make him look ridiculous".
In response, Craig's lawyer Stephen Mills asserted Craig had a right to defend himself through his "Dirty Politics" pamphlet.
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While Williams and his supporters including Cameron Slater have welcomed the decision, Craig's lawyers have announced that they would be appealing the verdict and challenging the size of the damages awarded. This led him in 1963 to a job at Conservative Central Office, where he was personal assistant to the party chairman, Viscount Blakenham, and his successor, Edward du Cann.
Craig also testified that MacGregor had proposed to marry him but that he had turned her offer down because he was already married. "As might have been expected, the resignation of a close adviser to the leader of a political party only two days before an election excited a great deal of news media interest," Justice Toogood would write.
[107], Colin Craig did not file an acceptance of this action by 26 April, actioning an inevitable re-trial. Trevor Vicemar Rogers is a former New Zealand member of parliament, sitting for the National Party from 1990 to 1995, then for the Right of Centre party from 1995 to 1996. the High Court publicly released a 250-page judgment, Colin Craig texts: 'NZ would be disgusted', Craig v MacGregor defamation trial draws to an end, Colin Craig sexually harassed Rachel MacGregor - judge rules, set aside a million dollars and was going to destroy me, re-examined by the Supreme Court on appeal, the pair sued each other for defamation earlier this month, Election 2020: Advance NZ get close to 1 per cent, David Fisher: One final election in pursuit of Winston Peters.
[52] On 10 October 2014, following the 2014 general election, both parties settled the lawsuit out of court and agreed to bear their own legal expenses. She outlaid her concerns and the pair talked of setting professional boundaries. "Smile" is a collection of my poetry written over a period of 50 years.
These included that Craig: had sexually harassed Rachel MacGregor; lied about it; and covered it up after settling a sexual harassment hearing in the Human Rights Commission and then the Human Rights Review Tribunal; and that there was a "second woman". McCoskrie defended Craig's pamphlet as a response to the alleged "organized campaign" against Craig.
It was the largest amount awarded in damages for defamation in New Zealand's legal history, which will now be re-examined by the Supreme Court on appeal.
He was concerned the law was incorrectly applied and he should have succeeded on some claims against Slater which the judge dismissed.
Instead, their parents should be charged the "cost of rectifying their bad behaviour".
[79], In April 2016, the High Court ruled that the telecommunications company Vodafone could not disclose private email correspondence between Craig and former party member John Stringer, who welcomed the decision.
Despite acknowledging that he had fabricated the interview by posing as the interviewee, he defended his actions on the grounds that "talking about himself" in the third person was a common literary tool.
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