1) Congratulations on one of the best programmes on any TV channel (in my
opinion)!
2) Episode 6 had a female lawyer (I didn't catch her name) saying that there
is one certainty in criminal cases: that the victim is a victim. That is not
true, and you did not pick her up on it. In false rape complaints, often no
rape actually took place, meaning that there was no victim -- see the webpage
http://nzmera.orconhosting.net.nz/womliar.html
which is about a Lower Hutt woman caught out by surveillance camera when she
claimed to have been raped. The Police aren't perfect, so some such cases
must surely end up in court.
3) In Episode 1 you discussed an adoption case which involved the court
apparently ignoring the clearly stated will of Parliament. I don't know the
name of the case and haven't read it, but it seems to me that you did not
spell out the constitutional implications properly.
Of course, you have a conflict of interest, since you have to appear before
judges to earn your living.
In fact, it is not up to the court to deliberately create a mess so that
Parliament will have to clean it up, when there is only one way that Parliament
could possibly clean it up -- i.e. to liberalise the adoption law.
It appears that the judges, you, and your guest think that homosexual couples
(and other non-married couples) should be allowed to adopt children, but Parliament
is entitled to decide (by refusing to act) that that would be a bridge too
far, and it is not democratic for some legal people, brainwashed by the propaganda
that they are exposed to, to decide otherwise on behalf of the electorate.
4) I object to the presence of Steve Price on the show, because he is unprofessional
and creates the impression of so-called "liberal" bias on the show.
He taught me Legal System, and, during one test, he ran up the aisle (which
I was sitting next to), turned his head as he passed me, and appeared to take
a close and deliberate look at my test paper. Since tests are meant to be
taken anonymously, and students are only identified by their ID numbers, I
was obviously bound to wonder if he was trying to recognise my handwriting,
so as to learn (later) what my ID number was. At the very least, his behaviour
was a case of bullying, because it created the fear in me of being victimised
for my political beliefs.
He and I had already crossed swords on the Internet, in relation to an Upper
Hutt case of domestic murder.
*Greg King later apparently took his own life, after having come under intense,
negative public pressure as a result of his having successfully defended an
accused murderer who the public generally thought was in fact guilty.