Comments on: Legal Block

By: MacDoctor

MacDoctor — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 19:52:19 +0000

Mark: Seeing as the Manukau district court was the place most cited by Dame Bazley for legal rorts, it would be somewhat imprudent to use their in-house data, regardless of how good the reputation of the two lawyers involved.

This is also not the first report to suggest that the legal aid system is being abused.

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 19:34:36 +0000

The interesting thing for me about this was one of the reports by TV one last week when the news broke. They briefly talked to two lawyers in the Manukau district court who apparently had conducted what seemed to me to be very similar research recently, but who had quite different findings.

Very little was made of this fact – I’d be interested to see what the overlap of the two investigations were and the reasons for differences between them. Any thoughts?

By: Lucy

Lucy — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:53:31 +0000

I am probably too cynical MacDoctor but I doubt that any legal action will be taken over this if what Cactus Kate says is true, that the majority of these lawyers are PI’s Maori and Asian. It wouldnt be pc and that would never do.

A commision on corruption wont happen either. It doesnt suit the lot of pollies we have in the house on both sides at the moment. How could John Key justify his backing of Helen to the UN or his appointment of Michael Cullen if all the facts came out. No it wont happen or if it does any commission will be given such a narrow terms of reference as to be useless.