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… exercise and diet. In competitive bodybuilding a panel of judges rates the contestants on the size, tone and symmetry … competition for women, although the female competition was judged at a gym rather than in public. In 1911 the first …
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Part of story: Bodybuilding, weightlifting and powerlifting
… of statutes, were quoted and relied upon by subsequent judges. He promoted important reforms, notably the passing … to excess. He even opposed the voluntary reduction of judges' salaries during the depression, believing that this …
Type: Biography
… then chief justice. Ostler's duties introduced him to the judges of the Supreme Court and gave him a familiarity with … as he was appointed King's counsel, Ostler was appointed a judge. On the Bench, Ostler was a hard worker, impatient of …
Type: Biography
… not vote, stand for election, serve on a jury, sit as a judge, or keep their New Zealand nationality if married to a … to serve on a jury, and to sit as justices of the peace and judges. The Ministry of Women’s Affairs was established in …
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Part of story: Gender inequalities
… Mary Walters. His father was a solicitor and later became a judge of the Court of Arbitration and the Supreme Court of … humbug’ and Clifton Webb , the attorney general, he judges ‘rather worse’. Outside his legal career and …
Type: Biography
… person who has denied them are ‘proved’ if the presiding judge decides the prosecution has shown the offence was … youth. Rangatahi and Pasifika court processes involve a judge, a representative of the NZ Police, elders, a social …
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Part of story: Youth offenders
… severely strained in 1978 when Gaven Donne, a New Zealand judge acting as the Cook Islands head of state, disallowed …
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Part of story: Foreign policy and diplomatic representation
… that they were different. The soldiers met Australians and judged them ‘a loose beery lot’, more rowdy and uncouth than …
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Part of story: The New Zealanders
… with weapons, before elders and experienced warriors who judged from their performance whether they were ready to go …
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Part of story: Traditional Māori songs – waiata tawhito
… seditious libel on 20 May in a state trial presided over by Judge C. W. Richmond in Hokitika. As they had pleaded …
Type: Biography
… for judicial review are essentially those developed by the judges in cases that come before them, and it is a branch of …
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Part of story: Law
… Celt. He was clearly not too mindful of the admonition of Judge C. W. Richmond to tone down the militancy of the …
Type: Biography
… of his workmanship was highly praised. That most discerning judge, the typographer and printer R. Coupland Harding, in …
Type: Biography
… with the main base located in Whanganui. The district judge would arrive at the venues and set up court. In …
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Part of story: Ngāti Tūwharetoa
… day wonder’. 1 Later assessments were more positive. One judge commented that it ‘significantly altered the balance …
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Part of story: Ombudsmen and officers of Parliament
… My first eighty years , and Henry became a Supreme Court judge. Well-read, and interested in the physical sciences, …
Type: Biography
… do not allow anyone else to beat them.’ 2 This freedom was judged harshly by the standards of Victorian England. …
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Part of story: Ngā mātua – Māori parenting
… defence argued Stone was only going half that speed. The judge disagreed and fined Stone 50 shillings and court …
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Part of story: Street life
… in the hands of the Air Services Licensing Authority, which judged applicants on a range of criteria, including the …
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Part of story: Aviation
… common law – law that developed from customary practice and judges’ decisions, rather than from written statutes. …
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Part of story: Law and the economy