Bush Lawyer

Police have dropped their insistence that garden stores record customer details when selling certain types of equipment as part of the bail conditions for those arrested in the Operation Lime cannabis raids.
Christchurch District Court Judge Christopher Somerville was told today that the condition that the shops keep a register of customers was now being dropped nationwide, three weeks after the raids.
Ten people charged after the Christchurch raids went to court today to argue for the deletion of that clause in their bail conditions, and police agreed.
Three lawyers, Jonathan Eaton, Tim Fournier, and Pip Hall, represented the group, which has now been remanded to a post-committal conference in the district court offices on July 2.
The group faces a total of more than 60 charges, including supplying cannabis growing equipment, DVDs and magazines, as well as some charges of cultivating, supplying, and possessing the drug itself. One faces two firearms charges.
One man's requirement to report regularly to the police was dropped, and another was given leave to travel to Britain for a family celebration.