Yes Kiwis are far too complacent. However it is also crawling with lawyers. If someone had the money, plenty of lawyers would be happy to argue the finer points of law. I think the real issue is that they only use that law against someone who could not hope to appeal it on the basis of the law itself being illegal. The NZ Bill of Rights …
Yes Kiwis are far too complacent. However it is also crawling with lawyers. If someone had the money, plenty of lawyers would be happy to argue the finer points of law. I think the real issue is that they only use that law against someone who could not hope to appeal it on the basis of the law itself being illegal. The NZ Bill of Rights Act is routinely contravened by other legislation, almost as soon as it was passed. I have heard this from NZ law makers themselves. But that law is no doubt applied very deviously. The vast majority of men would have no hope of having the resources to appeal it. In any case, when prosecutors apply that charge, no doubt it also means they are tossed out of their own home, probably have their income seriously impacted, placed under extreme stress and generally placed in a position where they have few resources to fight the charge.
However, every now and then they screw up and charge someone like a lawyer with one of these laws and that lawyer suddenly becomes motivated to address the unethical/illegal nature of that law.
Yes Kiwis are far too complacent. However it is also crawling with lawyers. If someone had the money, plenty of lawyers would be happy to argue the finer points of law. I think the real issue is that they only use that law against someone who could not hope to appeal it on the basis of the law itself being illegal. The NZ Bill of Rights Act is routinely contravened by other legislation, almost as soon as it was passed. I have heard this from NZ law makers themselves. But that law is no doubt applied very deviously. The vast majority of men would have no hope of having the resources to appeal it. In any case, when prosecutors apply that charge, no doubt it also means they are tossed out of their own home, probably have their income seriously impacted, placed under extreme stress and generally placed in a position where they have few resources to fight the charge.
However, every now and then they screw up and charge someone like a lawyer with one of these laws and that lawyer suddenly becomes motivated to address the unethical/illegal nature of that law.