On 5 June 2011 the NZ Herald reported that banned company director Steve Crow – recently convicted and sentenced in the Auckland District Court for breaching his banning order - is now promoting a new web-based business: an escort agency (prostitution) - NZXescorts (Crow was sentenced and fined $5,000 plus court costs. He changed his plea to “guilty” after initially pleading “not guilty”). However, the [...]
The New Zealand Domain Name Commission Policy (see: www.dnc.org.nz) requires that all website domain name owners record the true name of the registrant (the legal owner) and this must be a legal “Person” – either an individual person or a legally constituted Person/entity (e.g. a registered company or Society). On Sunday 5 June the NZ Herald published a story [...]
NZ Escort Directory Launched Source: Story by Frances Morton. June 5, nzherald.co.nz One week after pleading guilty to directing a company while banned, porn magnate Steve Crow has announced a new business venture. [Crow is listed as a "disqualified director" on the Companies Office website www.companies.govt.nz - banned for four years under s. 385 of the Companies [...]
The heritage hotel at the centre of a demolition stand-off was moving by up to 5 millimetres an hour towards the street when the decision was made to knock it down, the Auckland Council said today. The 124-year-old Palace Hotel building in central Auckland was reduced to rubble following a council order in November last [...]
Just as the Society (SPCS) predicted when it presented its written and oral submissions to the Justice and Electoral Seclect Committee considering the Prostitution Reform Bill back in 2001-2003; the decriminalisation of prostitution has indeed led to a growth in under- age girls working as prostitutes on city streets, in some cases even supported by their [...]
Why would we legalise what women who have experienced it call ‘paid rape’ and voluntary slavery’? What is prostitution really like for the person in it? Recently The Economist ran a debate online about legalising prostitution. Putting the case against was San Francisco psychologist Melissa Farley, who is also the founder of Prostitution Research and [...]
The Charities Commission has produced a very helpful guide explaining how those involved in the charity sector can, among other things, identify and guard against money launderers who aim to legitimise money sourced in illegal activities, by chanelling it through charities. It also explains how charity funds have been siphoned off to finance terrorism – [...]
Family First NZ welcomes removal of brothel near PM’s home
Family First NZ, a registered charity with the Charities Commission, issued the following media release today: Residents’ Action Gets Remuera Brothel Booted Out Family First NZ is welcoming news that the residents in Remuera’s Ascot Ave near the Prime Minister’s residence have succeeded in getting rid of a residential brothel through community pressure. “It is disappointing [...]