Colin Carruthers, QC "what Sir Edmund said is .. conjecture, hearsay, wrong in fact and entitled to no weight whatsoever".
Sir Ted Thomas “Either you have been bullshitting me or Alan has been bullshitting you. ."
It’s tough being a lawyer at the best of times – well, kind of – but being a lawyer in Iran is beyond even being a South Auckland boot-banger. Take women’s rights activist Shiva Ahari, (pictured) for instance, who now faces the highly sophisticated threat of being stoned to death for dodgy charges levelled against [...]
Let battle commence. The application by Justice Bill Wilson for judicial review of the decision by the Judicial Conduct Commissioner Sir David Gascoigne to appoint a panel to consider his removal from office is obviously historic, reports John Bowie in the NBR “Briefcase” column. It has also drawn accusation and counter-accusation. It’s a first that [...]
Apart from Justice Wilson, Alan Galbraith draws attention to himself by virtue of his own handling of the extensive business relationship he had with Justice Wilson. Putting aside the Judge’s conflict and the obligations upon him to disclose it, it is less clear how far Galbraith had gone to do the same thing. It may [...]
Legal eminence grise Sir Edmund “Ted” Thomas has been caught with his spam-guard down – and his highbrow eloquence. Writing to Jim Farmer, doyen of barristers, asking whether Jim had been “bullshitting” Ted is a bit like Bill (Wilson) asking Colin (Carruthers) about Alan’s (Galbraith) and his side deals. Or about “lowlife” Vince Siemer. Or [...]
We joke sometimes, through gritted teeth, about the number of lawyers in America, but just hang on to your horses on that one. In the World Cup of lawyers-to-citizens, New Zealand comes in third, right behind Brazil and the US. The Law Society had an major inflow of in the second half of last month [...]
