The latest column from acclaimed Papakura lawyer Harry Hindenberg I’m always saddened when people don’t comply with their contractual obligations. I know how disappointing it can be when someone lets you down after you’ve paid good money for their services, because my clients are always telling me so. “An incompetent disgusting pervert” was how one…
This debate over gay marriage seems to have hit us from nowhere. I suppose that’s not strictly true, because the issue’s been bubbling away for a few years now; but it only came to the fore when Barack Obama announced he was a supporter of gay marriage. As usual when debates centre around issues combining…
A political crisis is threatening to end the leadership of David Shearer, after the Labour leader reportedly played Stairway to Heaven while trying out a guitar. Witnesses say that the incident happened during a visit by Mr Shearer to Goldbeard Guitars in Owhiro Bay, Wellington. Dave Gilberd, the owner of Goldbeard Guitars, said Mr Shearer had been…
I see that Mr Key has been complaining to anyone who will listen about how hard done by he is, and that nobody understands any more. Well let me remind you, John Key, that you didn’t become Prime Minister by accident. You made a lifestyle choice and now you have to live with it, and if you don’t…
An emergency quarantine zone has been established around the Beehive building in Wellington, after reports of senior government ministers inexplicably falling ill. A civil emergency has now been declared in Wellington, and health officials have been meeting under urgency to consider how to address the situation. The crisis became apparent after a government minister began to behave in…
Everyone’s favourite authoritarian libertarian is back. The French have this week again made us wonder why we bothered to liberate them in 1944. They have elected a socialist President, and it seems now that they don’t want to take their much-needed austerity medicine. When I think of all the sacrifices past generations have made in…
Acclaimed Papakura lawyer Harry Hindenberg proposes a defence for John Banks If there was ever a time when John Banks needed a good lawyer, now is the time. I have to feel sorry for Mr Banks, because he’s really done nothing wrong. Electoral laws serve no genuinely useful purpose, and are designed solely to keep…
The Government has introduced into Parliament a series of amendments to the Immigration Act, in an effort to keep out illegal immigrants. John Key announced today that the law would be changed to put a stop to the influx of boatpeople and put an end to the massive crisis threatening to overwhelm New Zealand’s immigration…
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