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-----Original Message-----
From: Grace Haden <[FOI #28323 email]>
Sent: Saturday, September 7, 2024 12:01 PM
To: [Ministry of Justice request email]
Subject: Official Information request - Whose responsibility is it to hold
a lawyer accountable to the rule of law
 
Dear Ministry of Justice,
 
in 2018   a lawyer  wrote to the  NZLS    and solicited a document  which
contained false information with regards to the times that this lawyer 
held a practicing certificate
 
Acting General Manager Regulatory at the time issued two letters  one
requesting the LCRO to change  a  decison  and the other one to the lawyer
apologising  for  an " error " which had in fact not occured
 
the reality is that there was no evidence to support this letter    and 
it was  false .
both the  lawyer concerned and the   author of the letters  have  
confirmed that the details the letter contained was incorrect.
 
The letters  were however used to  end my career as a private
investigator  by alleging that I had made false statements, the lawyer 
concered had posession of  documents which proved the  law society letters
false
 
the letters were also used  for a defamation claim
 
I made a complaint to the law society as soon as the letters were 
produced as the  lawyer  had not held a practiing certificate  at a  time
when the ADLS was the registrar and  the intention of  the  letters was to
discredit the corroborative evidence which I relied on
 
the law society has totally brushed the creation of false  docuemnts  
off   now saying that the  Acting General Manager Regulatory  was not a
lawyer( in that he was not a holder of a practicing certificate )  at the
time  and therefore  is not subject to the act . this person now holds a
positon  where   integrity is of the utmost importance
 
By way of OIA please provide  documentation  which considers
accountability to the rule of law by each of the following   and who is
responsible for  enforcement of complaince  for
1. the law society itself
2. its employees
3. by its members
 
please provide  documentatoin  or policy as  to  how  the public is
protected from non compliance with statutory  obligations  by the law
society .  where do we go  what  do we do  or  do we just suffer the fall
out  ,  can the law society be a party to an offence  by   seemingly
condoning a criminal  offence.
 
where is the public protection ? 
 
There appears to be an annomoly in that the law society prefers to protect
its members  rather than hold them accountable  to the rule of law  in
other words  who polices  the   law society   and who in the ministry of
justice has over sight  of the  workings of the law society  to ensure
compliance with their statutory duties
 
Yours faithfully,
 
Grace Haden
 
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Dear Grace,

 

Please find your OIA response attached.

 

 

 

 

 

Ngā mihi,

Communications Services
Ministry of Justice | Tāhū o te Ture

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