New Zealand’s solicitor general has asked for an investigation into what part the Crown played in one of the country’s most significant miscarriages of justice – making it the first time in the country’s history that Crown law has turned investigators on itself.
On Wednesday the supreme court quashed Alan Hall’s murder conviction, for which he spent 19 years in prison, after it found there had been a substantial miscarriage of justice when key evidence was not disclosed in the original trial – something the Crown itself acknowledged was wrong.
