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Authored by: Tolerance on Thursday, December 06 2012 @ 05:17 AM EST |
People tend to forget that NZ routinely tops Transparency
International's "lack of corruption" indices.
Were Winkelmann to recuse herself her place would simply be
taken by another high court judge who would inherit the
file. Whatever judge were to take her place will not be the
friend of the government in this matter. There is no such
judge. Part of the reason is that the place is really rather
small and everyone knows where the skeletons lie.
On only one occasion that I can recall has a high court
judge ever had to recuse himself in that manner. The whole
process was so public and painful one can't imagine any sane
politician ever wanting to repeat it. Only the Constitution
Act gives Parliament any power at all over the judiciary,
and that's a reserved power in the sense that it's never
supposed to be used.
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