The exposure of police practices through the recent IPCA investigation has only scratched the surface of the problems in our halls of power .
It appears that those charged with enforcing the law are not held accountable to it .
This is particularly true of the legal profession . The legal profession are at the highest level of power overseeing and advising government bodies and creating legislation .
Very few people are aware of the incestuous nature of the legal fraternity and how it functions without independent oversight .
There is a massive conflict in that the NZLS has two statutory functions Regulatory functions and Representative functions it is both the provider, educator an industry association and the disciplinary body .
My own example of why we need an independent regulator stems from an incident in 2018 where the manager Regulatory NZLS issued two letters see here for a member to be used in a tribunal .
As a result I lost my private investigators licence ( I am ex police ) as I chose to retire rather than fight the false documents ,which the law society defended .
The documents were then used for a defamation claim and subsequently a harassment claim when I pointed out that letters were false and that the legal action was malicious .
In December 2018 the Manager regulatory wrote to the lawyer and advised that the letters were ” incorrect ” this is months after advising the lawyer “The New Zealand Law Society (NZLS) assumed control over the regulatory records of the ADLS in February of See s379 of the Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006.
As we have previously advised, pre 2009 records are historical and were created by the ADLS. As the ADLS is a separate entity the NZLS is unable to verify or guarantee accuracy.“
This raises the question as to how the January 2018 letters were created in the first place and how the ” due dilligence was carried out “
NZLS has refused to act or investigate , my complaint went to the standards committee who reported “The Committee considers Mrs Haden’s complaints relate to matters which are, will be or have
been, before the Court. It will therefore exercise its discretion to take no further action.“
The December 2018 email was concealed from the proceedings , the law society provided a almost fully redacted copy to satisfy my privacy act request . In March 2020 I obtained a unredacted copy . Without any apparent application to the court the judge immediately issued a restraining order , this was later overturned as it was issued without jurisdiction
This basically means that a lawyer who is committing crime only needs to take their accuser to court and they can get away with it , no one investigates and the NZLS is willing to cover up even going to the extent of creating false documents ( forgery )
I took the perjury complaint to the police and they refused to deal with it despite the fact that the lawyers own affirmation proves the perjury. Again the legal advisers to the police are members of the NZLS .
I am now a pensioner and am paying a lawyer $75,000 out of my pension because I was made out to be a liar through the creation of false documents which were created to negate the corroborative evidence I relied on for the truth , which was that in June 2006 the lawyer did not have a practicing certificate .
The matter went to the court of appeal , they identified errors made by the lower courts but decided that it is not in the public interest to pursue . Guess it is in the public interst for me to pay $75,000 for free speech and speaking the truth.
Effectively the law society and the court are condoning corruption and there appears to be no avenue to have this investigated . If this happened to me who else is it happening to ?
Lawyers have accountability to the rule of law but no one holds them accountable hence my petiton which I believe is timely .
the petition is located here
Petition request
That the House of Representatives establish an independent statutory authority to carry out all the regulatory functions currently assigned to the New Zealand Law Society.
Petition reason
The New Zealand Law Society has both regulatory and representative functions, which I think is a massive conflict of interest. I believe that the public have no protection from wrongdoing by the Law Society or its members. In my view, Independent Police Complaints Authority (IPCA) oversight of the police proves how essential independent oversight is.