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Lockstep Lawyers for the Phantom of the Five Eyes

From Ursula Edgington, PhD

Why did every company’s legal advisor, all the corporate lawyers including their professional bodies, go along with the covid era legislation? Where was the Human Rights Commission, social justice ‘experts’ and academics whose role and duty was to stand up for ethical, informed consent? Why, three years after the ‘no jab, no job’ mandates, is discrimination still enforced in so many workplaces, staff compensation missing? Here are some reasons why.

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… there’s no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.” Jean Giraudoux (1882-1944)

  • At readers’ request – this is the first of a series of articles on lawfare during the covid era in New Zealand.

Browsing New Zealand lawyers’ websites, you may be forgiven for thinking that large law firms in New Zealand are genuinely Kiwi-run, independent from each other, but of course well-connected. They compete for business, right? But did you know that Large Law Firms Group Ltd is actually a registered company (2155281) incorporated in 2008? The shareholders of which are, you guessed it, the ten largest law firms in NZ. As usual, everything is Hidden in Plain Sight.

Investigating these websites, the directors, partnerships, memberships and ‘charitable’ arms of these law firms, it is clear they are often disingenuous – they are in reality funded by, and servants of ‘them lot’ or GloboCap, a branch of massive corporate entities.

The Large Law Firms Group Ltd consists of (in no particular order):

1.      Bell Gully Services Ltd

2.      Kensington Swan Holdings Ltd aka ‘Dentons’

3.      Chapman Tripp Holdings Ltd

4.      Budfin Nominees Ltd  aka ‘Buddle Findlay’

5.      Malcolm Ross Crotty (Partner at Russell McVeaugh)

6.      Consensus Nominees Ltd aka ‘Simpson Grierson’

7.      Minter Ellison Lawyers NZ Ltd

8.      Martin Thomson (DLA Piper Ltd)

9.      Duncan Cotterill

10.  Anderson Lloyd Shareholding Co Ltd

The Lawyers’ Regulator Enabler

 

The NZLS describes itself as a regulator with:

“…dedicated duties and powers focused on monitoring, regulating and enforcing the rules that apply to lawyers and the way they practise law. We regulate around 15,000 lawyers to ensure New Zealanders can have confidence in the provision of legal services.” (my emphasis)

15,000 is a lot of lawyers in a small population like ours. NZLS’s main regulatory services are:

·       Maintaining a public register of lawyers

·       Issuing practising certificates and certificates of standing

·       Managing the Lawyers Complaints Service

·       Managing a Financial Assurance Scheme, including trust account reviews

·       Managing the Lawyers’ Fidelity Fund

·       Law reform and advocacy activities including submissions on legislation

·       Making practice rules: processes for changes in modes of practice

·       Providing libraries for lawyers

Has NZLS become another victim of regulatory capture?

David Campbell is a director at Dentons, and conveniently, he is also a Director and Vice President Auckland at the New Zealand Law Society (NZLS). Frazer Barton is president of NZLS and also a partner at Anderson Lloyd. I know it’s perhaps inevitable that senior lawyers are in these roles, but does it really need to be this explicit? Couldn’t we at least have some independents, some retirees?

You see NZLS has a Council of Legal Education (CLE) and an online learning indoctrination platform for professional lawyers to obtain their required hours of continuing professional education. If you have time, its YouTube channel contains interesting communications to its members regarding the covid era tyrannical changes in our Human Rights laws.

The Council says its “…an independent statutory body. The general activities of the Council concern public interest and regulatory matters and centre on the Council’s responsibilities for the quality and provision of education and practical legal training that is required to be undertaken by any person either within New Zealand or from overseas wishing to be admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand.”

But how CAN the CLE be independent and in the public interest, when it is staffed, funded and run by the lawyers it is supposed to audit? Sounds like the UKs MHRA! NZs revolving doors of power, that I have written about before, are flying around at full speed in this sector. For instance, Tiana Apati was until recently President of the NZLS CLE and has now moved to law firm Bankside. Previously she was at the NZ Government’s legal advisors: Crown Law.

Buddle Findlay will be the subject of a further article, but as expected their website looks remarkably similar to other ‘Large Law Firms’ partners, including Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) targets from the UN Agenda 2030. The latest report on progress provides the usual arbitrary data on gender and ethnicity, alongside stories of support for BigChem-sponsored Environmental Fascism I have written about before too.  

Extract from the DEI Report from Buddle Findlay with some interesting graphics

It is interesting to note this law firm’s Pro Bono arm, Buddle Findlay Child Health Foundation Trust (CC33151) which declares (unsurprisingly) a modest income/expenditure of approx. NZ$82k per annum (considering the $millions profit there must be for this firm’s activities?) Some funding goes towards paying for medical students’ ‘research’ projects at the University of Auckland. Another box ticked.

“Dentons is a global legal practice providing client services worldwide through its member firms and affiliates.” Here is a worldwide list from its website:

Screenshot from Denton’s website

There are international networks too, one firm states how:

“We work closely with legal specialists internationally through our membership of TerraLex. TerraLex is one of the largest legal networks in the world with 141 member firms, providing access to 201 jurisdictions and more than 19,000 legal professionals worldwide. Partners travel regularly across Australia, Asia, the US, the UK and Europe maintaining relationships with our key clients and referrer contacts.” (my emphasis)

Interesting to note that TerraLex Annual Report claims ‘the most productive year to date”. And is holding a Healthcare Conference in January 2025 for its members, sponsored by JP Morgan. In fact, there are many examples of interest in legal aspects of healthcare on these lawyers’ website, for instance this project about the implications of the NZ Privacy Act on data harvesting by eHealth platforms:

Like many of its partners, Minter Ellison published many international articles about the Five Eyes’ compliance with the ‘No Jab, No Job’ totalitarian covid era policies.

There are also numerous references to the Climate Change narrative, including legal guidance around obtaining Carbon Credits and similar.

DLA Piper is perhaps not a familiar NZ name, but is a partnership of global law firms:

“…separately constituted and regulated legal entities which provide legal and other client services in accordance with the relevant laws of the jurisdictions in which they respectively operate.” And their partnerships are extensive:

DLA Piper’s business in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia Pacific is governed by DLA Piper International LLP. The members, partners or other principals of the various entities that provide client services in those regions are members of DLA Piper International LLP, unless they are prevented from doing so due to regulatory restrictions.

Investigations into the directors of these firms and their associated trustees of ‘charities’ reveal anticipated clues into lifestyles and potential conflicts of interest.

READ PART TWO:

Taxpayer-Funded Lawfare in New Zealand: How much is it costing us?
 

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Jacinda Ardern’s Legacy of National Division and Excessive Use of Power (Hatchard)

New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has resigned after months of rumours. Ardern, whose popularity has plummeted during the last six months, told us “she had nothing left in the tank”.

The backstory to this resignation is a tale of woe. Ardern said she wants to be remembered as someone who tried to be kind. The subtext is: the country is in an unprecedented mess but don’t blame me.

Last year school attendance was reported as running at just 67% on any given day. Machete wielding teenagers are ram raiding liquor outlets, vape shops, dairies, and jewelry stores daily in a frenzied crime wave. The health system is overwhelmed. Ardern’s government promised to build 100,000 new homes over three years. It has delivered just 1500 to date.

Our tourist, farming, and hospitality industries have not recovered from lockdowns and border closures. It now takes weeks to get a visa to visit New Zealand (it used to take two days) and the government says it only wants rich people to come. No wonder, we are all poor now.

Ardern famously insisted on universal Covid vaccination mandates. There is a suspicion that our 90% vaccination rate has left everyone in a lethargic fog. Excess all cause deaths are still running 15% above the long term trends, and it is not Covid.

History will judge Ardern harshly, but don’t blame her alone. This was a Parliament who woke up on all sides of the house to the weakness of our constitutional arrangements (there are none worth the name). The Bill of Rights was tossed aside, and no one in Parliament cared.

The leader of the National opposition Chris Luxon famously said pre-pandemic if he was in power, he would withdraw benefits from unvaccinated single mothers. David Seymour, leader of the ACT party wrote on his FB those losing their jobs through vaccine mandates only had themselves to blame. Labour’s coalition partners, the Greens, led by example, encouraging mothers in labour to ride to hospital on a bicycle (yes they did).

Politicians of all parties were afraid to meet protestors and turned the hoses on them rather than listen to their concerns.

Revelations this week (here and here) that Ardern personally overruled her scientific advisors who were expressing doubts about the safety of Covid vaccines for young people and the wisdom of mandates, have circulated very widely and no doubt this has further undermined confidence in the government.

Ardern introduced ‘rule by regulation’. Adopting the enabling model favoured by fascists in the 1930s, her government has empowered authorities to tell us all what to do, when to stay at home, and where not to go. The courts, the Human Rights Commission, and the broadcast regulators have all followed the government line meticulously which has had a devastating effect on business, families, communities, and professions. To cement her policies, Ardern introduced massive government funding of our media and broadcasters—a hallmark of repressive regimes.

Ardern was a protege of Tony Blair and a graduate of the Klaus Schwab World Economic Forum young leaders program. Both must shoulder some blame too. What fantasies of global power did they offer to a young person who was given to idealistic dreaming that segued into fanaticism?

Ardern’s government, in an absurd overreach, has also funded a nationwide effort to discredit critics of policy, labelling them terrorists. This has divided a formerly egalitarian society, instituting a snitch culture that encourages us to dob in a neighbour. Government Disinformation Project employees appeared on funded films aired on television to a backdrop of atomic bombs exploding and Nazi stormtroopers marching. Absurdly they labelled knitting, blond hair, braids, vaccine hesitancy, love of natural foods, Yoga, and yes motherhood as signs of terrorism that should be reported to the intelligence services (yes they did, view it here on TVNZ if you can stand watching this nasty piece of propaganda and hate).

Why did Ardern suddenly change overnight in August 2021 from being a kindly figure saying she would never mandate vaccines, to being one of the world’s most draconian proponents? We can only speculate. New Zealand is a member of the five eyes intelligence network. Given the Pentagon’s recently revealed massive involvement in US Covid policy and gain of function research funding, was she fed information that a bioweapon was in play? We will likely never know.

The cynical will say that Ardern left early like Key to avoid the ignominy of U-turns and election defeat. Leaving open the possibility of political rebirth. The New York Times wrote this morning that Ardern, like Helen Clark, is in line for a global role and a bigger platform. We live in dread.

For a couple of weeks now government announcements and advertisements encouraging vaccination and boosters have been conspicuously absent. Has the penny finally dropped? We doubt it. It will take an honest, intelligent politician (are there any left?) to roll back Ardern’s dictatorial powers and kickstart New Zealand. Why would any aspiring newby give up that much power? The prospect will be too intoxicating, but that is what it will take. Someone has to rise above the mire of our current politics and realise that governments should represent the interests of people. Leadership is about fulfilling the aspirations of your followers, not just telling them what to do.

Our final verdict: It is not Ardern, but the whole New Zealand Parliament elected in 2020 that will be judged as the worst in our short history as an independent island nation, formerly famous for championing the underdog and offering opportunity to all. Ardern’s resignation lights a bonfire of the excesses of modern democracy. To find a way ahead, at the very least, the New Zealand Bill of Rights needs to be entrenched beyond the reach of power hungry politicians and compliant courts.

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My site was hacked & a post about the Green Party’s 1080 stance deleted!

Two days ago I had an as yet unpublished post featuring communications with and about the Green Party’s stance on 1080, hacked into and deleted.

I find this particularly disturbing and believe it illustrates the reach now of surveillance note particularly  ‘Five Eyes.

How this came about was curious in that it involved Facebook initially. The information contained in the item was in fact was posted on Facebook by a fellow blogger and consisted simply of a record of communications between another blogger and the Green Party about their stance on the use of 1080 poison in NZ. That original information with names, is posted below.

The information was taken down by Facebook actually, with no explanation given as would normally be the case. It contains no offensive remarks (as can be seen) and did not appear to violate any of the rules. A discussion ensued where I asked to be given a copy of the information so I could post it to this site. I duly copied it and dated it to be published on Saturday 4th November 2017 (next day).

When I returned that day to finish off editing the post, my own comments remained but the communications between the Green Party and the blogger had vanished completely. On there was an information video by DoC NZ about 1080, a link for which was in the Greens communication. I deleted the video thinking it must be an error of sorts, and then replaced the information that had been deleted, thinking I must not have properly saved the original post.

Whilst I was doing so, in between saving it and previewing it (whereby a copy of how it will look once published appears) the information DISAPPEARED AGAIN and the video REAPPEARED.

Now to cover bases, my site is a free WordPress site. I had availed myself of their two step authentication process which means aside from the usual login password to WordPress, I was also sent a text message each login with a one time new SECOND password. So the hacker (presuming this was the work of a hacker & perhaps a more savvy internet user may be able to shed more light on this) had gotten past the two steps, and supposedly had access to my text message.

I’m left wondering why of course, this person was keen to delete the Greens’ communications. And curious about the progression from Facebook to WordPress. WordPress, having taken a while to respond to my query on this, eventually advised me to change my password. No other explanation. I’m awaiting further information.

Here is the original post to Facebook, posted by Carol Sawyer, citing communications by Michelle Read:

 

THE GREENS ON 1080 POISON

Michelle Read wrote to the Greens, a comprehensive, lucid letter, complete with scientific tables and facts, with this accompanying note:

30 October, 2017

Dear James Shaw,

Thank you for replying to my email of 14th September via Geraldine Molloy and Stephen Lungley. It was good to hear the different views put forward by your party. Congratulations on the outcome of the election.

Please find some more helpful information which I hope you decide to appropriately distribute to those in your party who will make important decisions for our environment.

It is vital we reduce our pesticides use in line with the ‘developed world’ instead of escalating them on the basis of an ideology. We cannot afford to keep pretending that poisons are an answer to a problem that may not even exist in the way it has been presented to the public. Please do take a moment to read this.

Whilst the other OECD nations are reducing pesticide use, New Zealand alone is bucking the trend and escalating the use of these chemical poisons. The compound known as 1080 is such an example of extraordinarily high use of a deadly poison… some would say it is overkill.

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Here is the reply she received ( I have even been nice enough to correct the spelling in the credits Geoffrey Woodhouse has at the bottom of his letter. He had “Assiocate Minister for Environment” ) :

2 November, 2017

“On behalf of Hon Eugenie Sage, Minister of Conservation, thank you for your message of 30 October regarding the use of 1080 in pest control operations.

There is a lot of good information provided on the Department of Conservation website that can answer the concerns you raise. The following page covers most of the key points: http://www.doc.govt.nz/1080

Here’s a video from New Zealand’s Threatened Species Ambassador that explains why 1080 is an essential tool in protecting endemic species: https://www.facebook.com/DOCTSAmbassador/videos/380996898900459/?hc_ref=PAGES_TIMELINE

I recommend that you read the recent report of the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment on this issue; it is very approachable and provides an independent, scientific assessment of the points you have raised. I have attached the link here: http://www.pce.parliament.nz/…/evaluating-the-use-of-1080.p…

Sincerely,

Geoff Woodhouse | Private Secretary (Conservation)

Office of Hon Eugenie Sage

Minister of Conservation, Minister for LINZ, Associate Minister for Environment

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And here is Michelle’s response to that :

That is a very disappointing response and does not address my complaint.

The current failed aerial poisoning programme has existed for 64 years. It doesn’t work. There are no credible DoC reports or data to show net benefit to any species in the New Zealand forests, apart from rats and mice that is.

Please read the following:

A recent review highlighting several reasons for concern regarding the New Zealand Government’s policy of widespread aerial poisoning with sodium monofluoroacetate (1080), was sent to several Government ministers and staff (in August 2016). A letter in reply, in support of the ongoing use of 1080, was received from the Department of Conservation (DoC). The letter claims that there is foundational evidence aerial 1080 poisoning is ‘safe’, will retain its efficacy against rats throughout repeated applications, has desirable biodiversity outcomes, and that there are no current alternatives to its continued use. These claims are refuted based on documented evidence. Further, examination of documents concerning the management of two species, kea (Nestor notabilis) and mohua (Mohoua ochrocephala), reveals no scientific, ecological basis supporting pest control by DoC. There is an urgent need to review conservation management in New Zealand.

Response to the Department of Conservation’s reply to “Aerial 1080 poisoning in New Zealand: reasons for concern” (PDF Download Available). Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/…/313881837_Response_to_the_De… [accessed Nov 02 2017].

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