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‘Where has the Government been?’ Damning interview with Gloriavale Barrister: Newshub Nation

July 22, 2023: ThreeNow | Newshub Nation | Gloriavale has hit the headlines again this week. The Education Review Office announcing it’s investigating it’s private school. It comes after a second successful court case against the leadership – which found that children as young as six are actually employees in the community –…

Articles, Legal: Girls' Employment Case, Videos

Lawyer for ‘Gloriavale six’ takes aim at Govt in anger: Newshub

July 14, 2023: Juliet Speedy | Newshub | A lawyer for the ‘Gloriavale six’ says the West Coast religious community is a boil the Government needs to lance. On Thursday, the employment court found in favour of the women, that they were employees, not volunteers, and so were due the rights and payments…

Articles, Audio, Legal: Girls' Employment Case, Videos

‘They lived in fear’: Lawyer on court ruling that Gloriavale women were employees: RNZ

July 13, 2023: Lisa Owen |RNZ Checkpoint| “Relieved and vindicated” That’s the response of six former Gloriavale women found by the court to be employees. Serenity Pilgrim, Anna Courage, Rose Standtrue, Crystal Loyal, Pearl Valor and Virginia Courage took leaders of the christian community to the Employment court arguing they lived in servitude…

Articles, Legal: Girls' Employment Case, Videos

Gloriavale employment case: ‘It just feels amazing to be acknowledged’: RNZ

July 13, 2023: RNZ Former Gloriavale women who took the community’s leaders to court hope today’s ruling will mean change for their families still living in the West Coast commune. Employment Court chief judge Christina Inglis has found the six women were employees who worked extremely hard under punishing conditions for years on end, in…

Articles, Legal: Girls' Employment Case, Videos

‘Treated as slaves’: Former Gloriavale women recognised as employees in Employment Court triumph_Stuff

July 13, 2023: Jake Kenny, Joanne Naish and Tatiana Gibbs | Stuff | Former Gloriavale women who have won vindication over their claim they were employees at the Christian community say it feels “incredible to be heard, acknowledged and believed” after their victory in an Employment Court case. Their lawyer, Brian Henry, says…

Articles, Legal: Girls' Employment Case, Videos

Former Gloriavale residents were employees, not volunteers, court rules: Newshub

July 13, 2023: Caley Callahan | Newshub | The Employment Court has ruled six former Gloriavale residents were employees – not volunteers – while living in the reclusive West Coast Christian community. In a decision released on Thursday, Employment Court Chief Judge Christina Inglis said she had “no doubt” the plaintiffs “worked extremely…

Articles, Legal: Girls' Employment Case, Videos

Gloriavale in court: Leavers win Employment Court case, judge rules women born to work and any choice ‘illusionary’_NZ Herald

July 13, 2023: Anna Leask | NZ Herald | A group of women born and raised at Gloriavale were employees and not volunteers during their time at the secretive Christian community, the Employment Court has ruled. Born into the community at Haupiri on the South Island’s West Coast, the women were “taught from…

Articles, Legal: Criminal Court, Videos

Charges laid against senior Gloriavale member amid Police investigation: Newshub

June 30, 2023: By Juliet Speedy | Newshub | There’s been a significant development in the Police investigation into Gloriavale. A number of charges have been laid against a senior member of the reclusive Christian community on the West Coast. Police have confirmed to Newshub on Friday that historic charges have been laid…

Articles, Videos

Zion Pilgrim: Leaving a Religious Cult..Gloriavale

June 10, 2023: | The Altitude Show | Dave Brinker | On this full podcast, Zion Pilgrim shares his story of leaving the cult-like community of Gloriavale, and how it was a very difficult decision. He discusses the different arguments and reasons he had for leaving, and how he finally managed to make…

Cults and Sects, Videos

My Cult Trip to Gloriavale ~ with ANKE RICHTER

April 23, 2023: What is the Gloriavale cult and why are they always in and out of the courts? ANKE RICHTER is an international journalist, foreign correspondent and author based in Christchurch. Her new book, Cult Trip – Inside the World of Coercion & Control, has just been released – an investigative account…

‘Where has the Government been?’ Damning interview with Gloriavale Barrister: Newshub Nation

Lawyer for ‘Gloriavale six’ takes aim at Govt in anger: Newshub

‘They lived in fear’: Lawyer on court ruling that Gloriavale women were employees: RNZ

Gloriavale employment case: ‘It just feels amazing to be acknowledged’: RNZ

‘Treated as slaves’: Former Gloriavale women recognised as employees in Employment Court triumph_Stuff

Former Gloriavale residents were employees, not volunteers, court rules: Newshub

Gloriavale in court: Leavers win Employment Court case, judge rules women born to work and any choice ‘illusionary’_NZ Herald

Charges laid against senior Gloriavale member amid Police investigation: Newshub

Zion Pilgrim: Leaving a Religious Cult..Gloriavale

My Cult Trip to Gloriavale ~ with ANKE RICHTER

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