Good to see Crown Law Independence

The NZ Herald reports:

Crown Law will take over the prosecution of on a charge of knowingly filing a false election return.

Private prosecutor received a letter today from Solicitor Michael Heron confirming he would intervene in the case.

This is bad news for John Banks, but good for an independent judicial system. The prosecution of a (former) Minister is obviously not something overly helpful to the Government, and it would have been easy for Solictor General to leave it as a private prosecution. But good to see that they will act independently when they think it is the right thing to do.

Banks has a judicial review of the District Court decision to send it to trial, so that has to be dealt with first.

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