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The Dominion Post
February 11 2006

Stuffy law posturings
Letter to the Editor
by Martin Bond, Brooklyn

Your article on Robert Lithgow (February 4) dragging from the closet professional concerns about the Court of Appeal is welcome. The conduct of the Peter Ellis trial alone, and subsequent appeals, would in themselves have set alarm bells ringing in the minds of every thinking person about the operation of our judicial system.

The stuffy posturings of Professor Matthew Palmer, however, who presumably has something to do with teaching students the law and its operation, are indicative of how little things are likely to change anytime soon.