Posts by Graeme Edgeler
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Did anyone pick up on "Miss Alice" aka Rob Moodie PhD got in a huff when the Judges wouldn't use the title Dr and the reasoning behind it?
I was gonna mention that (well, not that, but rather the legal profession approach to titles).
In Court, men introduce themselves without a title ('Edgeler appearing for the Plaintiff, your Honour'), and are always called 'Mr' by others. The same applies to those (and there are a reasonable number) who have PhDs or other doctorates.
The Solicitor-General may be Dr Collins, but not when he's making submissions in Court.
Something about all lawyers being equal before the bar (women do introduce themselves with titles - Miss, Ms, or Mrs - because, well, you just have to know which one they'd want used).
The only time I can recall a judge referring to someone as 'Dr' was the time I served on the jury, and the lawyer had introduced himself that way - it might then have looked that the Judge was disrepecting him or playing favourites with the lawyers (something they try to avoid when there a jurors around).
Anyone interested in a campaign to bring back `Master ' and 'Mistress'?
Had an international student friend at Uni who showed us the official change of his name in his passport when he turned 18.
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What does David Cameron have that you chaps don't?
10 years out of office?
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Anyone else find it interesting that Stuff (through Reuters) feels confident enought to call Indiana, when neither MSNBC, CNN, or ABC have?
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What is the deal with referring to "Obama" (surname) but "Hillary" (first name)?
On that one, we're following their lead.
Clinton's logo included the words "Hillary for President", and Barack's using "Obama '08".
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Is the podcast part 1 supposed to be 88mb?
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That's a lot of megs for your serves to pass around.88 milli-bits doesn't seem that big to me :-)
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I agree that the 1689 BORA probably puts it beyond reach.
There's a reasonable argument it doesn't.
Just because something is protected by Parliamentary Privilege doesn't mean it cannot be judicially reviewed.
For example, Winston Peters judicially reviewed the Winebox Inquiry - the report of which was published on the order of the House of Representatives, and is protected by Parliamentary Privilege (just as an Attorney-General's report is).
Moreover, article 9 of the BOR 1688 cannot be used as a shield for the executive (they've tried it in relation to OIA-like stuff and been told to bug off) etc. This might be a Parliamentary proceeding, but I'd argue it isn't.
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When Kay Gregory was paired up with Paul Henry for TV1's Breakfast slot, the team didn't last long - Gregory quit almost immediately after because she couldn't stand Henry!
Except it lasted quite a while, and they had a great rapport (just one that wasn't based on some form of implied sexual tension).
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I'm a loyal firefox-er, and it shows just fine on TVNZonDemand for me (not Back Benches though, can't get that to show...)
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Turns out I can do that myself - should have checked it for YouTube!
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Well, today's effectively Friday :-) so I thought I'd post a Friday link:
It's awesome (if someone wants to edit this to embed it, please do).