By Dylan Moran
Controversial blogger Cameron Slater, who goes by the online alias Whale Oil, is appealing his convictions for breaching supression orders placed on the identities of offenders.
Slater was last month convicted in Auckland District Court by Judge David Harvey on eight counts of breaking name suppression and one of identifying a victim.
His appeal claims the sentence – a $750 fine for each breach of name suppression and $130 in court costs – is unjust and the convictions wrong, as the server for his website is based in America.
At the time of his conviction Slater blamed his actions on mental illness, saying “I’m clinically depressed. I do things sometimes, strange things.”
“It is what it is – [the] ramblings of a mental person.”
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