Earlier this month, Judge Stephen O'Driscoll decided in favour of the police, after a defended hearing for a young man arrested for disorderly behaviour.
The man's counsel, Russell Checketts, had submitted the procedures and processes followed by the police during the main festival weekend, September 25-26, were flawed and denied the rights of those arrested for minor offences.
Some people arrested had signed flawed guilty-plea letters and had not been given a summons to appear in court, Mr Checketts said.
In his decision, Judge O'-Driscoll said although police procedures that weekend were "less than perfect", there was no miscarriage of justice.
About 40 cases that had been postponed awaiting the result of the test case were called before justices of the peace Rory Gollop and Daphne Stewart yesterday. They involved minor offences - breaching the liquor ban, fighting, or behaving in a disorderly manner, and all the charges arose from that weekend. Twenty-six people were convicted and fined and the rest were remanded, most for diversion.
Penalties imposed yesterday were:
• Corey Alister Andrew (22), of Alexandra, fined $200, court costs $132.89.
• Shantelle Bakker (19), of Mossburn, hairdresser, fined $200, court costs $132.89.
• Jamie Daniel Burgess (19), of Balclutha, fined $200, court costs $132.89.
• Matthew John Sydney Coombes (19), unemployed, fined $300, court costs $132.89.
• Christopher Ziggy Gibbs (19), of Dunedin, unemployed, fined $300, court costs $132.89.
• Balin Day Hamilton (17), of Invercargill, labourer, (two charges) fined $200, court costs $132.89 on each charge.
• Lance Christian Hansen (24), carpenter, of Gore, fined $300, court costs $132.89.
• Kahu Elias Hook (21), forest worker, of Dunedin, fined $300, court costs $132.89.
• Kane Dean Jones (20), of Mosgiel, fined $200, court costs $132.89.
• Ricky Craig Linnell-Parker (19), of Dunedin, chef, fined $300, court costs $132.89.
• Jamie Michael Lynch (23), of Lumsden, builder, fined $200, court costs $132.89.
• Leanne McInnes (41), fined $300, court costs $132.89.
• Benjamin John Pawsey (19), of Mt Pisa, fined $250, court costs $132.89.
• Benjamin Francis Rackley-Withnall (22), of Dunedin, fined $250, court costs $132.89.
• Daniel Henry McRae Russell (19), of Dunedin, farm manager, fined $250, court costs $132.89.
• Thomas Rawiri Smith (20), of Cromwell, fined $200, court costs $132.89.
• Joshua Carl Templeton (19), of Invercargill, labourer, fined $200, court costs $132.89.
• Kurt James Townshend (19), of Invercargill, freezing worker, fined $400, court costs $132.89.
• Jared Russell Gibbs (20), of Dunedin, unemployed, fined $400, court costs $132.89.
• Regan Bruce Flaws (20), of Dunedin, fined $500, $132.89.
• Andrew James Sinclair (21), of Dunedin, unemployed, fined $400, court costs $132.89.
• Todd Jordan McKay (21), of Otautau, fined $400, court costs $132.89.
• Kane Stephen Sell (21), of Dunedin, driver, fined $400, court costs $132.89.
• Matthew Tira Wilson-Kereama (18), of Invercargill, fined $350, court costs $132.89.
• Joanne Elizabeth Blondell (29), of Alexandra, fined $400, court costs $132.89.
• Graham William Anderson (19), of Dunedin, fined $350, court costs $132.89.
