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Disgraced former Gloriavale leader Howard Temple’s appeal

March 4, 2026: | NZ Herald | Ryan Bridge TODAY |…

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Convicted sex offender and former Gloriavale leader Howard Temple will not be going to jail

March 3, 2026: | RNZ | Tess Brunton | Convicted sex offender and former Gloriavale leader Howard Temple will not be jailed after winning a High Court appeal against his sentence. Temple was sentenced to 26 months’ jail in December for indecently assaulting young women and girls at the West Coast Christian community…

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Ex-Gloriavale leader Howard Temple won’t go to jail for touching girls, as sentence quashed

March 3, 2026: | The Press | Brett Kerr-Laurie | Former Gloriavale leader Howard Temple’s more than two-year prison sentence for inappropriately touching girls in his religious community over two decades has been quashed. Instead, he will serve 11 months home detention – and his name will be removed from the child sex…

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Gloriavale leader Howard Temple’s prison sentence quashed – replaced with home detention

March 3, 2026: | NZ Herald | Anna Leask | Disgraced former Gloriavale leader Howard Temple has successfully appealed his two-year prison sentence. That means he will not spend a minute behind bars for more than 20 years of sexual offending against girls and women, most of which occurred while he was the official…

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‘No justice’: Fury as ex-Gloriavale leader Howard Temple spared jail for touching girls

March 3, 2026: | The Press | Brett Kerr-Laurie and Joanne Naish | A former Gloriavale member says the justice system is failing victims of sexual assault after former leader Howard’s Temple prison sentence for inappropriately touching girls over two decades in the religious community was quashed. Temple’s sentence has been drastically reduced by a…

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Ex-Gloriavale leader Howard Temple wins sentence appeal, won’t go to jail

March 3, 2026: | 1 News | The former leader of Gloriavale has won an appeal he took after being sentenced for sexual offending against young girls and will no longer be jailed. Howard Temple, 85, pleaded guilty to 12 charges, including indecent assault, involving young women and girls between 2002 and 2022.…

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Debanking in New Zealand: Lessons from Gloriavale

February 20, 2025: | MinterEllisonRuddWatts | Richard Gordon; Alex Church | In this episode, Litigation Partner, Richard Gordon talks to Senior Associate, Alex Church, about the outcome of a recent Court of Appeal case, Bank of New Zealand v The Christian Church Community Trust and others, commonly known as the Gloriavale case. Together they discuss the implications…

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Constraints on the exercise of contractual powers

February 12, 2025: | MinterEllisonRuddWatts | Constraints on contractual powers have long been a topic of debate that has received surprisingly little academic attention in New Zealand. However, this area has recently garnered increased attention due to several recent cases in New Zealand’s courts. We discuss the current state of constraints on the…

Disgraced former Gloriavale leader Howard Temple’s appeal

Convicted sex offender and former Gloriavale leader Howard Temple will not be going to jail

Ex-Gloriavale leader Howard Temple won’t go to jail for touching girls, as sentence quashed

Gloriavale leader Howard Temple’s prison sentence quashed – replaced with home detention

‘No justice’: Fury as ex-Gloriavale leader Howard Temple spared jail for touching girls

Ex-Gloriavale leader Howard Temple wins sentence appeal, won’t go to jail

Debanking in New Zealand: Lessons from Gloriavale

Constraints on the exercise of contractual powers

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