Law student wins civil liberties case

Wyvern, University of Essex, November 2004

A Masters student from the Department of Law has successfully argued that a convicted murderer held in a New Zealand jail was held in conditions that amounted to physical torture.

Tony Ellis, who wrote his dissertation on prisoner’s rights, represented Christopher Taunoa and eight other prisoners who were kept according to Paremoremo prison’s Behaviour Management Regime (BMR).

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