Deborah Chambers: The good in the Supreme Court’s Tamihere decision

PremiumOpinionLady Deborah Chambers is a New Zealand King's Counsel practising in Auckland.‌David Tamihere’s convictions for murdering two Swedish tourists were quashed, 37 years after the couple disappeared in the Coromandel bush. Photo / Jason OxenhamIn the first of a two-part series on the Supreme Court, Lady Deborah Chambers, KC, unpacks the David Tamihere case.

The New Zealand Supreme Court was created in 2004 to take over from the Privy Council in London as our final court of appeal. It was meant to be more