Vince Siemer

Who is Vince Siemer?

Vincent Siemer is a prominent critic of the New Zealand judiciary and publisher of the website www.kiwisfirst.co.nz. He was previously a businessman and real estate broker in the United States who immigrated with his wife and children to New Zealand in 1999.

He has been sentenced to imprisonment three times in the high security Mt Eden Prison for contempt of court after failure to comply with an interim injunction which forbade him from publishing information concerning Auckland insolvency accountant Michael Stiassny. Two convictions came while he was on trips out of the country and legally unrepresented in Court. The third was by an order of the Supreme Court of New Zealand. Siemer was taken into custody upon his return to Auckland International Airport after each conviction. On 15 November 2012 he was in the Supreme Court again, having been convicted and sentenced for publishing a High Court judgment which denied the then-eighteen Urewera accused a jury trial, in breach of an order that it be suppressed from the public.