Strictly Obiter

Some good gets for Glazebrook J's valedictory sitting.

I love clients.

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Just you wait until we have a right to undressed windows.

If someone tells you it's raining and another tells you it's dry, it's not your job to quote them both. It's your job to look out the window and see if Christopher Luxon is holding an umbrella.

I've come to the point one reaches in every bit of advice - having to account for the one outlier Duffy J decision from the mid-2010s.

Me drafting the pro forma notice of appeal: “I have searched the depths of Legal Arguments not yet articulated or vetted on this subject, and will be presenting an irrefutable one in the very near future.”

"Who's a good boy?"

"I'm going to need you to stop asking. That's operationally sensitive and the dog hasn't waived his anonymity."

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Our society will not be safe until we close the Northern Club.

The extremely-Wellington special counsel to the Judicial Conduct Panel keep going to what is hands-down the worst cafe in the vicinity of the court, but no one is telling them.

Between them the panel members have more titles than the Oamaru Public Library. I refuse to believe they don’t have the Northern Club in their mind palaces.

“Counsel, what is this Northern Club you speak of?”

My only thought on heads of bench is that I wish Fitzgerald J was doing full time judging.

At which point it does everything except make any sort of case for why the status quo isn’t working.

Deborah Chambers: Why we need term limits on our most powerful judges OPINION: New Zealand's Chief Justice can currently lead the courts for up to 20 years.

This column is hiding the point it wants to make. We haven’t had a head of bench at DC, HC or CA level in station for longer than six-ish years in the last 25. It’s really a column against limits for CJ.

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Photo of Winston Peters at Waitangi, with the headline: I didn't come here to be insulted

What is te reo for 'Where do you usually go?'

Going full Roger Partridge on this one, sorry team.

"Well, sure, but no medical regulator that *truly* believed in the rule of law would follow their statutory obligation to receive and process complaints."

- the Court of Appeal, 2026.

Constitutional dialogue except it's the Court of Appeal menacing medical regulators who aren't parties about hypothetical future actions because that's what the rule of law requires apparently.

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Most people don't know that the promissory note was invented in 1736 by John Promiss, a Bristolian merchant and qualified solicitor.

Just helping the Law Commission brainstorm future project titles.

Re: signing under a Cloud - the law of electronic signatures.

Before writing anything, first check to see whether someone else has had the same idea.

I’m part of a team of lawyers putting together some urgent subs which is stressful but fun. My role is mainly to remember old Hammond J zingers that are directly on point.

As Speaker, this chap did daily videos to camera reading out what the business of the House would be that day. I used to watch them on my lunch break because I found them very calming and they helped with anxiety. I thought he was great!

This is a lack of imagination. When Sir Alexander Herdman retired as AG he appointed himself a Supreme Court judge.

Will I understand Marty Supreme if I haven’t seen Marty High and Marty Appeal?

Can't believe Dean Knight cyberbullied the Prime Minister into announcing the election date.

Asking for your land to be treated like Māori land when you live in Taranaki is certainly something.

House meeting.

In the New Zealand justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the police, who investigate crime; and for some reason employees of private law firms who prosecute the offenders but aren't subject to the Official Information Act. These are their stories.