The fact is that to be able to keep secrets you sometimes have to lie. Maybe they thought his bullshit was a good thing.

Steve, that's assuming it was something of which the SIS were even aware. I'd say it's about 50:50 as to whether or not that's the case,…

Now NZPA sources have revealed the company behind Mr Wilce's recruitment – Momentum Consulting – also selected an unqualified woman to work as an accountant for a Wellington business group.

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The woman has been convicted and is awaiting sentencing.

what about the former Head Defence Scientist? My guess is that his CV simply listed his military service and sporting interests, and he put the gloss on about being James Bond verbally, in interview.

One thing that doesn't seem to have been spelled out to (or possibly by) the media…

I do note that Judge Therrien's disclosure failure was not with respect to a case, but in his application to be a judge (the arguable bit being that the conviction he didn't disclose had been expunged/clean-slated).

Yes, but I think that makes it less serious because the Therrien non-disclosure did…

what about the former Head Defence Scientist? My guess is that his CV simply listed his military service and sporting interests, and he put the gloss on about being James Bond verbally, in interview.

And my guess with Mary-Anne Thompson was that some HR/PR type person had prepared an information…

Surely when someone is employed by the people in a prestigious and lucrative position we're entitled to full attention.

Off topic, what about…

It still seems like an old boys (and old girls) network and that Justice Wilson didn't think he needed to announce his conflict of interest in the belief that his peers would understand because they trusted him as a friend as well as a colleague.

Conflicts of interest tend to…

Earning over 300k would probably put you in a position where you invest it in other ways ; i.e. "business interests".

They would seem to be as good a candidate for blind trusts as MPs, particularly in the area of corporate cases.

This gives the flavour of the type of non-criminal misbehaviour that might get a judge removed from office: conducts manifesting an unfitness to continue in judicial office.

I don't think it really does give the flavour as you have focussed on the more extreme examples (as has Wilson's counsel). The…

I think Chris Finlayson could have acted sooner and that an MP is going around saying just that.

1. Chris Finlayson shouldn't be acting at all.
2. There is nothing he could have done. He can't remove a judge from office or investigate a judge, that's the job of, first,…

I think Chris Finlayson could have acted sooner and that an MP is going around saying just that.

There were huge arguments about whether or not to recommend…

an affidavit from wool grower Richard Bell which alleges that National's Kaikoura MP, Colin King, told him that Mr Finlayson would not act against Justice Wilson because they were friends.

Chris Finlayson isn't acting against Justice Wilson. Because the two were partners in law firm Bell Gully, he stepped aside…

Justice Wilson was indebted to Mr Galbraith by up to $602,000.

Justice Wilson completely denies being indebted to Mr Galbraith. He argues:

* they were joint shareholders in a company.
* neither owed the other anything.
* neither owed the company anything, rather:
* the company owed them both money;…

I have not seen too much about this in the media, possibly due to the confusing nature of the points being argued. Which is understandable