Majority ruling gives the minnows little chance

Richard Ackland decries judicial activism in the Majority ruling gives the minnows little chance in their quest for justice against the predations of the legal profession. International legal opinion form the UK, NZ, Canada, and the USA has that the legal profession has no immunity against being sued. Of course, 'them foreigners' have no weight in deciding that our legal profession needs protection against the public

The High Court says that what people respect and what is a "central and pervading tenet" of our jurisprudence is the idea of finality. One might rub one's eyes in disbelief at reading such a sentiment in a judicial system in which length of time is the measure of reward and where appellate correction is the order of the day.

But apart from the beauty of finality and "the quelling of controversies", the court gave weighty consideration to the importance of the judicial process as an aspect of government.

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The ruling class must be very anxious to keep the masses quiet and unquestioning of the judgements of the ruling class. They are the ruling class because they are smarter than us. They are smarter because their judgements are unchallenged. They are unchallenged because challenges are illegal.