Really, these are the highlights?

[meteor]

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10853947

Well if these questions are the highlights of a 113 page interview from retired Justice Binnie's of David Bain then what a snore fest the rest must be. Interestingly Bain had to raise his own innocence again. I wonder how many of the 113 pages has him still trying to convince himself... And the comment "I just have to go back to that place in my mind"... maybe he should have said, "I just have to remember what Joe to me to say, because I've told so many lies it's hard to remember".

Go Crusher Collins, tell him to f#$k right off!!!

[jim.cox]

I'm pretty sure Bain truly believes he did not it - unlike the rest of the country

[Road kill]

I'm pretty sure Bain truly believes he did not it - unlike the rest of the country

Shouldn't that be "some of the country" ?

[Motig]

" most of the country "

[Road kill]

" most of the country "

Read your own sig' lately ?

Time for a change huh.

[Fatjim]

Although I have no opinion on the guys guilt except that in all likelyhood the guy who walks away did it, I find the Ministers apparent statement that using CAPS means you're shouting shows me she spends too much time on feminist online forums where there is a lot of SHOUTING going on.

Before the days of the internet placing a WORD or A STRING OF WORDS in caps meant you where highlighting, not shouting. For her to blurt out something about shouting in my mind is amateurish, as well as immature.

[Swoop]

Go Crusher Collins

The only thing she has proven is her own arrogant stupidity.
Obviously she didn't get what she wanted from the report. The same report written by an independant and senior overseas judge.

Strange that overseas legal-beagles (including the Privy Council) have looked at things differently from our bunch of monkeys.

What would anyone else expect from a failed tax-lawyer who is now the minister.:facepalm:

[onearmedbandit]

Meh, I don't know who did it. I've only been fed certain pieces of info by the media.

[SPman]

She's a stupid, arrogant, vituperative bitch just like most of her colleagues......what else did anyone expect.


The reason the government went to an outside judge in the first place to assess David Bain's compensation claim is because we needed a fresh, independent look at the case. Everyone in New Zealand - lawyers included - either has an opinion on it, or like me finds it such a turnoff that they'd rather gouge their own eyes out than trawl through it.................Justice Binnie gave us that independent, outside review. And the Minister rejected it and ordered a secret, one-sided hatchet-job because she disagreed with the conclusions and/or thought that accepting them might harm her political image with the politically valuable sadist bloc. Whatever you think of the Bain case, that's not justice. Instead, its a rejection of some of justice's basic principles: neutrality, independence, and hearing both sides of a dispute.

Justice Binnie's finding of police failure was due to "criminality or wilful misconduct" on their part...serious findings that point the finger directly at police misconduct, so it's no wonder that the manipulative Collins is spitting tacks at Justice Binnie.

[caspernz]

Kinda reminds me of joke, where a number of accounting students are asked how much is 2 + 2. All those who answered 4 overlooked the obvious, having failed to ask how much the person posing the question wanted it to add up to....:innocent:

[Swoop]

Justice Binnie's finding of police failure was due to "criminality or wilful misconduct" on their part...serious findings that point the finger directly at police misconduct, so it's no wonder that the manipulative Collins is spitting tacks at Justice Binnie.
Yup. Can't have an independant person pointing out all of the gaping holes in a "justice" system, can we?

This makes good reading (http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10854151)from Karam's side of the fence. (sadly it is in the harold...)