Putting the Prime Minister on the radio for an hour to show listeners what a nice guy he is "appears to encourage or persuade voters to vote for a political party or the election of any person at an election". Who'd a thunk it?
Read MoreLaw
If it's just a symbol, why do you care?
Is John Key being advised by Auckland law graduates?
Read MoreGetting by with a little help from my friends
In which the author seeks to have the New Zealand legal community do his job for him.
Read MoreBecause politics is the LAST thing you need to see at election time!
NZ on Air wants to stop people thinking they are biased in a partisan way. So why are they being accused of acting in a way that shows partisan bias?
Read MoreIt's always tea-time, and we've no time to wash the things between whiles.
The election may be ancient history by now, but the controversy over the recorded conversation between John Key and John Banks is still brewing away. See what I did there?
Read MoreA farewell to arms
The Occupy Dunedin camp has folded. Now a judge has told Auckland's version to do the same. So it goes.
Read MoreThe Bradley Ambrose non decision
The court has decided not to decide whether Bradley Ambrose's taping was legal - and that's all it has done.
Read MoreTime for a cup of tea, perhaps
The tea tape is making even sensible people like David Farrar say some pretty silly things. Lucky I'm here to put him back on course.
Read More5-0 be down here about the bodies, yo
The police "seizing" material from the news media isn't that big a deal. [Update: except for the bit that is ...]
Read MoreThe Conversation
Here's my suggestion to politicians. If you want to plot the takeover of the world without people finding out about it, don't do it in a Newmarket Cafe.
Read MoreSome quick legal advice for Dave Cull
Dunedin's police will not be moving to evict the Occupy Dunedin protest. Good on Dunedin's police.
Read MoreNo doubt the precogs have already seen this
If you know someone very well might do a bad thing in the future, then why wait until they do it before punishing them?
Read MoreAt my signal, unleash hell
The Dunedin City Council has tired of the Occupy Dunedin protest and wants it gone. So why is it still there?
Read MoreIs this really how we have to remember Simon Power?
If torturing a prisoner will lead to more money for victims of crime, then isn't that a good thing to have happen?
Read MoreSome praise for Parliament, rare though that may be
The Justice and Electoral Committee has done a good job on the issue of covert video surveillance. Mostly.
Read MoreFor law geeks only ...
I realise repeated posts on the issue of hidden video cameras is not a sure-fire way to increase traffic to this blog, but here we go again ...
Read MoreThanks ... but computer says "no"
My prospects as a freelance fixer of public policy problems look distinctly unpromising.
Read MoreFurther on "the Geddis solution" ...
My name is being dropped as the author of a potential way to fix the "problem" of covert video surveillance following the Supreme Court's intervention in the Urewera trials. What are the issues at stake?
Read MoreToo many problems, why am I here?
We are told the Supreme Court's ruling on the use of covert video surveillance has caused a major headache for the Police. Let me fix that for you.
Read MoreOnce upon a time in te Urewera ...
Smile! You may be on Police camera ... and may be again.
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