Hard News: Veitch
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I encourage as much use of the word "veitching" as possible.
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I have always understood the best defence against action for defamation to be having the money to pay for expensive lawyers. It is not an area of the Law which is predicated on fairness.
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180 hours community service and ordered to pay reparation for willfully damaging a bag of feta cheese.
As Plutarch might say: Veni, vidi, veitchy offski
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"injuring with intent to wound" vs "wounding with intent to injure"?
A wound is more serious than an injury (which is more serious than an assault)
Injuring with intent to wound is where you injure someone, but were intending to do worse to them.
Wounding with intent to injure is where you wound someone, but weren't intending to go that far, but were 'only' intending to injure them.
A broken bone is an example of injury. A stab wound is an example of a wound.
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Lets not all forget how humiliating it will be for tony veitch, to serve the community; more than the average criminal?
Yeah, he'll probably have to go on Dancing with the Stars.
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How a kveitch? It comes from kvetch, meaning to complain persistently and whiningly.
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I have always understood the best defence against action for defamation to be having the money to pay for expensive lawyers.
I've this hope in the back of my mind that once in my legal career I'll successfully defend a defamation suit by arguing consent .
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"Kveitch" is good.
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Stuart
Can you or someone else remember the name?
Good, cheap Malaysian food -
If they're good let us know so we can go too :).
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I have always understood the best defence against action for defamation to be having the money to pay for expensive lawyers.
Or the opposite. I vaguely recall a story told by the eminent Jonathan Boston, of when he was a young reckless student and got on the wrong side of some kind of lawsuit threat from some kind of powerful American. The lawyer asked for a list of his assets, and gave up in disgust when the best he could come up with was his bicycle.
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It was on Mount Street, across the road from a hostel (Macsomething hall?) and next to The Quest on Mount. I think it was called Angie's kitchen, but Keith or Alastair might have a better idea. Keith has it programmed into his iphone, I do know that!
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Now, putting on my evil Murdoch hat, I would have thought publishing something in my paper/magazine that was SURE to atttract a law suit from Mr. Veitch's trigger happy lawyers would guarantee several new rounds of high-selling headlines as the public right to know was defended from the evil lawyers...
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P.S. I thought a "Kveitch" was a Jewish sailing vessel????
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Russell - thanks for your reference to Jim Traue. He was my first boss when I started working at the Turnbull Library and was quietly building up the internationally significant Millton collection and the Library's other collections, while positioning the Library, as you say, to fight the idealogues. Which happened. But the Library largely survived intact.
After he retired he continued to fight for libraries when the Wellington Public library was under extreme threat of business process reengineering and the other managerial excesses of the 1990s. And at the end of the 1990s the govt of the day was busy selling off the National Library's book stock and running down services before the govt changed and the Library rescued with a new Act and better resourcing.
And now there is another library fight and once again Jim has weighed in on the side of the Turnbull as a premier and unique research library, and for which he is once again getting vilified.
Today's library bosses want to spend $70million on a massive and inappropriate rebuilding project that will see much of the collection unavailable for three years and with no guarantee of the safety of the collections or the jobs of the specialist librarians. (Just think how much digitisation, and back cataloguing could be done with that money!)
The staff and researchers have, of course, hardly been consulted and the staff apparently banned from talking about it. So we need the Jim Traues of the world more than ever.
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I remember reading that American Idol contestants, for example, are weeded into three groups before the judges even lay eyes on them. The middle group - the unexceptional ones - never see the judges at all, while the other two groups - 'good singers' and 'deluded/crazy/taking the piss people' get to go to the audition room we see on the telly.
That is exactly right Danielle. Often the producers of the show do this before the judges have seen them - the auditions we see are in fact every contestant's second audition. The judges' reactions are usually completely unscripted and unrehearsed as they are seeing the contestants for the first time, just like we are.
However, with Ms Boyle I get the feeling that Simon Cowell, being a producer of the show, was in on this right from the start. And being cynical I have a feeling that she may have even auditioned in a previous series and Cowell brought her in when the franchise was flagging and needed a lift.
I thought she was good, but if you took a recording of her without the backstory and without seeing her it wouldn't be remarkable.
I Dreamed A Dream was a good choice though - that's always a good one for getting people to cry and it suits the "backstory" she has well. -
And an excellent piece of architecture is going to be mucked up.
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I thought she was good, but if you took a recording of her without the backstory and without seeing her it wouldn't be remarkable.
I Dreamed A Dream was a good choice though - that's always a good one for getting people to cry and it suits the "backstory" she has well.I wondered. And I know I was being manipulated every way that the magic of television can do it -- that clip is a bravura job of editing -- but it was still amazingly effective.
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Defamatory statements have a pretty wide definition.
They "tend to lower a person in the estimation of right-thinking members of society, or that tends to cause the person to be shunned or avoided, or that tends to cause the person to be exposed to hatred, contempt or ridicule."
The guy's admitted beating his partner. It's hard to see how anything we say could damage his reputation more than what he has already publicly admitted himself.
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Good Listener editorial on National Library rebuilding folly (which includes the Turnbull)
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Susan Boyle
The posted clip is a trimmed-down version. A more complete version (hat tip: Spareroom.co.nz) is...
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Stop the presses
I've just heard something that really shocks me about what Veitch's people are doing.
The Sunday newspapers are going to be very, very ugly.
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I've just heard something that really shocks me about what Veitch's people are doing.
The Sunday newspapers are going to be very, very ugly.
Not just this?
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Tell us more Russell!
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Yeas stopping the presses and leaving us there hanging is not going to work. Broooown! <shakes fist>
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Tell us more Russell!
I'm all ears as well - specially as I never read the Sunday papers - but surely if it could be said without repercussions Russell would be saying it outright...
Although I doubt it can be as bad as what I'm imagining right now (but, note carefully, not publicly saying - hi Team Veitch!).
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