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Jimmy Mason and one of his sons - Source: ONE News -
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Christchurch father Jimmy Mason has been given leave to appeal by the Supreme Court.
The 51-year-old was sentenced to nine months supervision and ordered to undergo anger management courses after a jury found him guilty of assaulting one of his two children.
The case was widely seen as a test of the anti-smacking laws as Mason publicly claimed he'd done no more than flick his son's ear.
The Supreme Court has just announced it will permit him to appeal his conviction on the grounds that combining two allegations in a single count resulted in a miscarriage of justice.
The two allegations are punching a child and pulling his ear.
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