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Article: Queen's counsel to fight drink driving charge
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- Sunday Star-Times
- Article date:
- March 31, 2002
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Rachel Grunwell
QUEEN'S counsel Jim Farmer - the chairman of Air New Zealand
during the airline's crisis last year - is fighting a charge of drink
driving.
The 60-year-old barrister, whose clients include British American
Tobacco (NZ) Ltd, will appear next on the charge in the Auckland
District Court next month.
He is facing a charge of driving with a breath alcohol reading of
591 micrograms of alcohol per litre of breath. The legal limit is
400.
Farmer told the Sunday Star-Times he had only a couple of glasses
of wine at dinner when he was pulled over in Parnell and believed the
breathalyser was defective.
He applied for police documents related to his case and said they
showed police ...