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The Christchurch Civic
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So the commission of inquiry into
alleged police impropriety is set to cost up to $14 million. What can
taxpayers expect to see for this money? We apparently can expect that
juries will acquit defendants when there is a lack of supporting evidence,
and good job too. But should it cost $14 million to determine that our legal
system operates as it should? When will we finally see an
inquiry into another case that also lacked supporting evidence? No inquiry
yet has had the good fortune to traverse all the relevant evidence in the
Peter Ellis case. Indeed, an appellate court said
that a commission of inquiry should look at some of the issues. That was
seven years ago. More recently, Parliament's justice and electoral select
committee stated that the Ellis case didn't inspire adequate confidence in
the justice system. It didn't inspire confidence
because the case was built on a house of cards. The Louise Nicholas case was
similarly built. The justice system has some of its credibility back. |
