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. ."
From “Justinian” publisher and SMH columnist Richard Ackland: The solemn edifice of justice depends on the public having some sort of respect for and confidence in judges. That sounds like one of William Blackstone’s platitudinous pronouncements but it’s something the judiciary trots out frequently to remind everyone that they are ”in touch” yet remote.
It’s a list that is received with great expressions of doing the ‘public good’ and standing up for the underdog and all those other tiresome phrases that emerge like treacle from the lips of lawyers, but the recipients of the legal aid largesse (our words, certainly not theirs) are covered in this story and show, [...]
Justice Bill Wilson has an ally in his feisty friend Wellington lawyer John Tannahill who lept to the judge’s defence with a letter to the ‘Dominion Post’ telling us that he endorsed what had already been written to the newspaper by retired solicitor general and former High Court judge Richard Savage, who castigated Sir Edmund [...]
