More Legal

Legal Aid: Dame Margaret Bazely has done an investigation into our Legal Aid 'system'. The pathetic fact is that the system only favours the poor, the rich and the lawyers. If you are rich then you can afford to defend yourself, the poor get the aid (paid for by the middle class) and the Middle Class can't get anything. In Australia recently a man was found Not Guilty (the Tel One case) and the others who couldn't afford the $10 million defence pleaded guilty as it was cheaper.

There is no incentive for defence lawyers to bring a case to a speedy end.

My thought is simple. We have a Public Service Public Defenders Department. I heard that Sir Geoffrey Palmer has recommended this for years. I can't see any problems.

But in our usual fashion it will be 30 years away!

Netball: The CEO of Netball NZ has had a 40% pay rise. He now gets about $840,000. You must be joking. For a sport that has no real international sway, no huge TV deals to seal, no complicated tours (maybe Jamaica). Unbelievable.

Smacking: Nigel Latta the high profile psychologist has said the current law is working. In every case he looked at that Family First was raving on about, he found about the facts presented by them were wrong.