Rickards as a lawyer
The HoS has a copy of the letter Louise Nicholas wrote to the Law Society about why Clint Rickards should not be admitted to the bar. She says:
She also wrote it was “absolutely shameful” that Rickards publicly supported co-accused Brad Shipton and Bob Schollum immediately after the trio were acquitted and criticised the police.
“For this man to stand on the steps of the Auckland High Court and publicly announce that ‘my good mates Shipton and Schollum should not be in jail, they are good men’ is absolutely shameful,” wrote Nicholas.
I would have thought the ability to get up and proclaim that guilty men were innocent, is a pre-requisite for being a lawyer!
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Tags: Clint Rickards, Louise Nicholas
September 14th, 2008 at 7:02 am
I’m sure Rickards will make a very, very capable lawyer, in fact he could be a role model for many others looking to join that profession.
September 14th, 2008 at 8:09 am
Embroiled in a vicious sordid gangbang while a member of the police, accused of bullying members of the public, what makes this former bent pig feel he has something to contribute to the legal fraternity. He would be great at jury challenge, as many women would flee the room before he selects them. I suppose with a corrupt Prime Minister setting the low down dirty standards in a land where the inhabitants leave home each day a few neurons short of fully functioning synaptic connections anything is possible. He should fit in with the Courts of Injustice.
September 14th, 2008 at 8:18 am
You’d certainly want him working as your defence, rather than against you. As above, just the image of having him as your lawyer would put the other team on the back foot. If he is admitted to the bar, I bet he gets a fair bit of work.
September 14th, 2008 at 9:05 am
Rickards who has not been convicted of a crime is being condemned by the public for no other reason than being not acted in a manner like that of Pope John Paul during his time with the police, and Louise Nicholas is being treated like a celebrity in this country and held as a role model by women out there. So, the message for the country’s teenage school girls out there is something like this , hey Susan, Mary, Helen ,…, if you get bored in going to school, don’t worry, just drop out and hang out with the boys, but make sure, you write down in your diary who you got involved with, because you know, in the next 10 to 20 years, one of them could run for Parliament or a successful businessman, or whatever, and those written records will make you a celebrity (TV appearances, book contract, speaking engagement, blah, blah, blah…). Yeah right, a very good role model indeed. I think that Willie Jackson (although I don’t like his politics) is correct in saying that the persecution of Rickards in the minds of the public has gone beyond fair justice but more of being borderline racist.
Give the man a fair go, because he has served his community & country very well.
PS : (I better turn off my computer and not read DPF’s blog for a month, since women readers here who champion Louise Nicholas will jump in on this thread to strangle me after this post).
September 14th, 2008 at 10:33 am
Rickards has been convicted, in the minds of many in the community of lack of decent respectful community standards, which the community expects, rightly, of a privileged member of that community. He attained that privilege by being a member of the organization charged with ensuring the safety of those that are members of that community.
He abused that privilege and while he justifies his involvement in his mind it must tell you something about the way the man thinks and his lack of respect and his inability to make a sound judgment about right and wrong in a position of trust.
Ask yourself this; Is this the sort of person we want defending notorious criminals from being dispensed justice in NZ?
Bad enough that we have to listen to the likes of Comesky defending the unacceptable without adding Rickards to the list. Be of no doubt he is embittered and will do whatever it takes to extract revenge from both the police and others.
We as a nation need to decide what we consider acceptable standards both from the Legal Proffession and our politicians. In the immortal words of our Dear Leader Mrs Davies “it all about trust”
P.S. Now we do have a position going in Tauranga as Police Prosecutor. Perhaps if he was to apply for that.
November 16th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
Why is it always the mans fault.