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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.
The Dominion Post Perhaps Australian
judge Rodney Madgwick knows the truth about the incompetence of some of our
so-called judges. The secretive Family Court needs to be opened up so the
public can see the truth and the biased, anti-male attitudes of the bench. My three children and I
can attest to this. We have the massive legal bills and have spent more than
14 years in that bigoted institution. The public needs to be
aware of the truth -- this isn't pre-war Germany. The Family Court needs
qualified people on the bench. Being a lawyer doesn't make them qualified. My
congratulations to Judge Madgwick. |
