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Prominent political blogger Cameron Slater says he will continue to break name suppression laws, despite being found guilty of the offence at Auckland District court today.
Slater is guilty of nine charges of breaking court suppressions. One of the charges relates to Slater publishing information that could lead to the identification of a victim.
He was fined $750 on each of the charges and has also been ordered to pay $130 in court costs.
Slater said he was not remorseful for what he had done and is discussing an appeal with his lawyer.
"Everyone who knows my blog and reads my blog ... knows I can't stand liars and hypocrites, so it would be lying of me to say I had remorse," he said outside court today.
Some charges relate to a blog post that was said to reveal the identities of a New Zealand entertainer and an Olympian facing sex charges.
Judge David Harvey said this morning that Slater had made it clear in his blog that he was mounting a campaign against name suppression, but went too far by publishing the names, and as a result embarked on a course of electronic civil disobedience.
"You set yourself up as a judge and jury as far as the publication of names is concerned ... knowing that those names were the subject of non publication orders ... but willing to flout the law," he said.
Earlier in the day, Slater had arrived at court confident he would head home without a conviction.
"I don't think there's a case to answer, but again you are reliant on the judge," he told ONE News this morning.
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