Fittingly, the Operation 8 hearings were scheduled for courtroom 8 in Auckland’s District Court. This was home to the initial pre-bail hearings before the Solicitor General in November 2007 over-ruled the use of the Terrorism Suppression Act against the original Urewera 17, which became 16, which then morphed into 19 and then 20 before falling back to the 18 named in these Auckland proceedings. [More]