A convicted paedophile has won his case to keep his identity a secret after the Sensible Sentencing Trust obtained leaked details of his offending and posted them online.
The man was convicted in 1995 of offending against two girls in 1975 and 1977. He was sentenced to 12 months in prison.
In 2009 an employee of the police unlawfully accessed his criminal record and supplied a copy of it to his employer. The details were leaked to the Sensible Sentencing Trust (SST).
The SST published details of the man's identity and offending on their website after a court memo showed there was no record of a name suppression order.
The man took his case to the Privacy Commissioner, and at a Human Rights Tribunal hearing at the Auckland District Court in August last year the Director of Human Rights Proceedings said the man's privacy had been breached.