Posts by Graeme Edgeler
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Polity: Buying a fight with democracy, in reply to izogi,
Is there a place where I can see the official submissions besides the media links from Rob's post?
Yes.
Click through the link on the to the evidence on this page for the select committee inquiry into the 2014 general election.
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Polity: Buying a fight with democracy, in reply to Emma Hart,
So either this isn’t a grievous violation of free speech, or the ban on election-day advertising is.
As much as I like it, the ban on election day advertising is a grievous violation of free speech.
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Legal Beagle: Cameron Slater: computer hacker?, in reply to Thomas Lumley,
It’s similar to the situation when Keith Ng (inscrutable hacker and master of disguise) showed the WINZ documents were accessible on their kiosk systems. Personally, I’d prefer that not to be illegal, but I don’t think it would be as indefensible as your solitaire example.
Agreed. I can’t come up with a consistent interpretation of the law that would mean that what Cameron Slater admits doing was criminal, but that what Keith Ng admits doing was not.
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Video embed now fixed :-)
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Yes, it is possible there will be a TPPA agreement that the Senate can ratify, and that several other countries can ratify, too.
Why do you believe that the US Senate needs to ratify the TPPA? Doesn't it, along with the House, just have to pass an implementing bill under the trade promotion authority?
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Legal Beagle: Necessity: or the Sky is Falling, in reply to Stuart Hoar,
Graeme, you say that you opined but I think in fact that you averred.
Capt. W. E. John disagrees.
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Legal Beagle: Necessity: or the Sky is Falling, in reply to ,
I’m going to need legal advice about what that means :-)
There are time limits on how quickly you can sue someone, and how quickly you can challenge a ticket or appeal a conviction. Many of the people who would have been able to challenge their tickets (by eg saying the open road speed limit technically applied, so they weren't speeding) will have been too late to do much about it.
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Legal Beagle: Necessity: or the Sky is Falling, in reply to ,
If they hadn’t changed the law retrospectively, drivers who had lost there licences, due to accumulating demerit points – might have started asking to have there demerit points credited. And there might have been requests for compensation for the humiliation of not being able to drive for the six mounths.
But would there have been many? And would most of them have been time-barred so they couldn't sue anyway, etc.?
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Except, of course, this isn't the reason Labour supports abolishing the one-seat rule, given that they announced they'd legislate to do that before the review was conducted, and indeed, before the referendum was held (as noted here http://publicaddress.net/legalbeagle/election-fact-check-8-electoral-law-consensus/).
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Robert is a New Zealander with a learning disability (we used to call that an intellectual disability).
I had no idea we'd stopped - sorry if I've been offending anyone over the last couple of years!