tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11340801.post113737859080385980..comments2023-10-06T16:45:25.381+13:00Comments on "Elephants and the Law" by Dean Knight: Taxi drivers, sex crimes and retrospective legislationDean Knighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03069298298745322597noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11340801.post-1137968905131342682006-01-23T11:28:00.000+13:002006-01-23T11:28:00.000+13:00boooringboooringRebel Hearthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05360746393756155346noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11340801.post-1137539855571065022006-01-18T12:17:00.001+13:002006-01-18T12:17:00.001+13:00One of my colleagues has suggested I may have unde...One of my colleagues has suggested I may have underplayed the effect on this legislation on person’s (historic) decision about whether to plead guilty or not. Obviously, it’s too late to revisit that decision but it is possible that the potential loss of (this particular) livelihood may have influenced that decision.<BR/><BR/>Fair point I think – a planning event I may have missed. Although I suggest the merits “marginal” cases would be able to be considered if individual consideration of cases was permitted. That is, the rationale for not then contesting the charge could be examined and the substance (rather than form) of the offending considered for any potential risk to passenger safety.Dean Knighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03069298298745322597noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11340801.post-1137539837718729202006-01-18T12:17:00.000+13:002006-01-18T12:17:00.000+13:00Thanks - just procastinating from revising other a...Thanks - just procastinating from revising other articles before teaching starts! <BR/><BR/>(I'll have a think about the omitted offence thing...)<BR/><BR/>dDean Knighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03069298298745322597noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11340801.post-1137476226576713442006-01-17T18:37:00.000+13:002006-01-17T18:37:00.000+13:00I'd undertaken brief attempts on other 'blogs to s...I'd undertaken brief attempts on other 'blogs to say why I didn't think this law breached the Bill of Rights, but even with my penchant for prolixity I don't think I'd have come up with a comment this long. Many thanks.<BR/><BR/>I noted comments of yours relating to this on frogblog, and thought I'd throw out a question I've asked a few times over recent years and haven't gotten any answer to: the clean slate law doesn't allow the clean-slating of any offences committed by someone who has ever been imprisoned or of someone who has ever committed one of several specified sexual offences ... why isn't unlawful sexual connection/rape (except committed against the Crimes Act 1956) one of those specified sexual offences?<BR/><BR/>I realise the question is largely moot, becuase such crimes will invariably attract prison sentences, but it still seems somewhat of an oversight.Graeme Edgelerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03928755583921638414noreply@blogger.com