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	The Dominion Post May 1 2006 Judge's views are vital Letter to the Editor by Martin Bond, Brooklyn Australian Judge Rodney Madgwick seems to have ruffled the feathers of some legal practitioners and other professions who have their ear with his comments about certain cases that come before the New Zealand courts (April 24). His comments are timely and if it takes the actions of an overseas judge to do this, so be it. Anyone who supposes that the flagrant miscarriages of justice perpetrated and perpetuated in the Peter Ellis judgments have not blighted the integrity of our judicial system in the eyes of many for a long time to come has underestimated the situation. The views of external commentators such as Judge Madgwick are vitally important now that we have jettisoned the Privy Council as our ultimate court of appeal and are left with only our own apparently inadequate and short-circuiting judicial system.