Posts by DexterX
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Going back to the subject - I'll say it again - Michael Quinlan is an excellent and generous bloke - unfairly treated for a range of reasons..
When the Police/State cast their weight against you it is hard for a just outcome to previal.
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Hard News: Switched on Gardener: to what…, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
What angle do you think Fisher is coming from though.
My first thoughts are he is reflecting "Collin's direction" - but I need to read more and reflect on both documents - to see what I really think.
Binnie has spent a full year - he will have been very thorough.
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Hard News: Switched on Gardener: to what…, in reply to Islander,
David Bain has a right to his innocence – it is a basic right at NZ Law – one is presumed innocence until proven guilty – and similarily where a conviction is overturned or one is found not guilty by virtue of a retrail – one is entitled to one’s innocence.
Under the Bill of Rights Act 1990, if you are charged with a crime, you have the right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. "The presumption of innocence" is a basic right under New Zealand's Bill of Rights.
Simon Power chose an outsider Justice Binnie having regard to the inherent national controversy that surrounds the case – Collins through her behaviour has reignited the controversy (rather than address the compensation issue), in my view, for her political gain.
I don’t consider Collins recent utterances to be sincere.
Binnie spent a year reviewing the matter and his deliberations are not going to be flawed, haphazard, politically expedient or substantially wrong and presented by Collins and supported by Fisher QC – Justice Binnie addressed these issues.
This is of worth - Justice Binnie. "Accordingly, if I am guilty of sinning, I do so in the good company of the five judges of the Privy Council." The Privy Council ordered a retrial for the many of the concerns that Justice Binnie has considered.
It is not up to Collins to retrial the case in the media, in the house or in cabinet – had Simon Power remained the Minister of Justice I consider the matter would be close to settling.
Collins has injected her personality and the hateful personality and motives of others into the mix – this should not have happened – it is ugly. Collin’s treatment of Justice Binnie is similar to Muldoon’s comment about US President Jimmie Carter, “What would he know he is a peanut farmer”.
It is clear, to me, that in the “David vs. Goliath” scenario that is the NZ Criminal Justice system Goliath needs to clean up his act. I am not just referring to the Bain case in making this comment.
If I could offer some support to Bain I would, he is suffering a substantial and grievous wrong in the manner Collins is playing this out.
Collins is in a word "Dreadful".
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Hard News: Switched on Gardener: to what…, in reply to Islander,
Collins is a future leader.
The matter of what you or I consider of guilt or innocence is well past – it is not at the heart of he issue, which will become apparent when the reports and hopefully the briefs are released.
Collins has had ample time to address any issue she has had with the Binnie Report, which has been on her desk since late August – the generation of speculation comes from Collins.
For Collins to instruct Binnie, a leading international jurist, to do the report and then basically to say he is incompetent is not a good look - but is also more than just that.
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Hard News: Switched on Gardener: to what…, in reply to Kyle Matthews,
However if Binnie has gotten his report right, then she's just made an astonishing legal and political error,
I don't think so - there is no accounting for the power of stupidity in all its guises. Collins has created this current situation of her own hand - it is so much bad form for a raft of reasons. Incompetence and Arrogance look Ugly.
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Hard News: Switched on Gardener: to what…, in reply to Kyle Matthews,
So you believe Collins when she says
[Binnie's] report appeared to contain assumptions based on incorrect facts, and showed a misunderstanding of New Zealand law. It lacked a robustness of reasoning used to justify its conclusions.
The report could recommend no compensation be paid.
I don't believe Collins - I feel she is creating a platform for her ambition.
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Hard News: Switched on Gardener: to what…, in reply to Sacha,
Collins has said the Canadian Judge Dude didn't understand NZ law - she is quite right.
Had the Canadian Judge Dude looked at say Erebus, Arthur Alan Thomas, Cave Creek he would have gained an understanding that when the government spend $400,000 on an independent judicial report or an opinion - they want the independent judicial report (the jiggery pokery) they are willing to pay for and not something that is all justicey and lawish..
Key has said on a range of matters – “it is just on legal opinion you can always get another.
Now Collins has to go get a QC to give her what she wants and she wanted it before Xmas too – she should just write out what she wants and get the QC to pad it out a bit.
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Hard News: Switched on Gardener: to what…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
You hydrated straight laced un-sedated community hugging weirdo - be honest you used to have long hair and sandals back in the day - and as the 70s rolled on you wore wallk socks and short stubbies.
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and the real problem is:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10853010
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Michael Quinlan is an excellent and generous bloke
This:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10852248& this:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/sunday-star-times/features/4022867/Switched-off-gardenersPolice should have also arrested the sun (or power supplier) , the moon and the rain - they also have a part to play in things that grow.