Posts by Graeme Edgeler
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Legal Beagle: If Australia Jumped off a…, in reply to
I prefer a written constitution to referenda
If we ever get a written constitution, it will be voted in at a referendum :-)
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Legal Beagle: If Australia Jumped off a…, in reply to
Binding referenda are, as Graeme says, a waste of money and there are other, far graver public policy priorities for urgent expenditure
Please note that I am only saying that *non-binding* referendums are wastes of money.
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Legal Beagle: On citizen’s arrests; or…, in reply to
Is there perhaps some Law that states failure to prevent a crime from happening is in itself a crime????
Only very specific ones: failure to alert the authorities to treason; failure to protect a child or vulnerable adult (eg knowing of child abuse as a parent and doing nothing, or knowing of serious elder abuse in a rest home as a person working in that home and doing nothing.
There is no general legal obligation to report crimes, or to cooperate with police, etc.
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Legal Beagle: On citizen’s arrests; or…, in reply to
Could that ever amount to kidnapping under the Crimes Act or would it be more like a traffic offence?
I obviously have no idea what happened, but the basic requirements for kidnapping are detaining someone with the intent of them being confined.
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Legal Beagle: On citizen’s arrests; or…, in reply to
Paragraph 3 seems to be truncated?
Do you mean paragraph 4, if so, I fixed it before you read it, but presumably not before you opened the tab :-)
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Legal Beagle: Questions, but no answers,…, in reply to
Here’s some examples of how National dealt with the same type of questioning from WP in the last term
And if Labour had objected, there's a good chance I'd have written a blog post supporting them.
I can't fix what happened in past Parliaments, but I can try to make sure it doesn't happen again!
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Legal Beagle: Questions, but no answers,…, in reply to
Although the sentiment regarding open governance is right – the practical application is fraught with exceptions. Diarised medical appointments, meetings with ones personal lawyers over say, a property transaction, etc. etc.
Medical appointments are not ministerial.
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Legal Beagle: Questions, but no answers,…, in reply to
I appreciate the self-referentiality of (presumably) the word “redacted” being redacted here, but I suspect it wasn’t intentional?
Withheld. Thanks :-)
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Legal Beagle: Election 2017: the Special…, in reply to
James Shaw got 15% of the vote in Wellington Central, where the GP even got 21% of the party vote. So 6% of voters in that electorate were green voters who voted against the leader of the Greens. Any one of them who reads this, please explain your rationale!
They wanted to make sure that Nicola Willis wasn't elected, so strategically voted?
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Legal Beagle: Election 2017: the Special…, in reply to
FYI I believe the next person on the Labour list is Angie Warren Clark, not Helen White.
So do I. I blame the fact it was 4:30 when I finished.