Kim Dotcom raid yielded “miscarriage of justice,” NZ judge rules

The High Court judge used some fairly strong language to describe the way in which the search and arrest warrants were issued (and how the subsequent SWAT-style raid on Kim Dotcom’s mansion was handled). “This has given rise to a miscarriage of justice,” Chief Justice Helen Winkelmann wrote in her decision.

Justice Winkelmann quoted from her own previous decision in which she found the warrants invalid, and she has now ruled that “in respect of items containing only relevant material, [clones of the seized data] must be provided to the plaintiffs before a clone is provided to the United States.”