‘Alice’ the lawyer gets dressing down from court

A MALE lawyer who appeared in court dressed in women’s clothes as a protest against what he said was New Zealand’s overly masculine judiciary has been suspended after being found to be in contempt of court.

The High Court ruled that Rob Moodie — a 68-year-old balding man who appeared in court in dresses and toting a handbag — was in contempt for circulating suppressed case documents outside the court.

Mr Moodie officially changed his name to “Miss Alice” as part of his protest against the “old boys’ network” that he said runs the nation’s judiciary, and was granted an award for the most bizarre conduct by a lawyer in 2006 by The Times newspaper.