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The Press
September 2 2005

Minority Support
Letter to the Editor
by R Christie, Addington

Your letters editor (August 27) wrote that "Tighe Instone warned the chorus of Peter Ellis supporters that they did not have all the strong arguments".

Ms Instone's prominently placed letter (August 25) based its arguments on the views expressed in one of only two negative - out of dozens of overwhelmingly positive - reviews of Lynley Hood's A City Possessed, the other negative being that of Val Sim, legal adviser to Phil Goff.

Instone's letter supposes that the views of E. Davies and J. Masson, as cited by her, are generally valid.

Dr Felicity Goodyear-Smith wrote an authoritative reply to Davies and Masson in the New Zealand Law Journal (October 2003).

Thus, a simple internet search "in response to Emma Davies and Jeffrey Masson" will enable your readers to judge for themselves the strength of the claims that Instone relies upon.