Did you know that David Bain is now a doctor and has a new job as the Bay of Plenty Coroner?
Check out this One News clip from last night at 1:00 into the story. Not sure what Dr Wallace Bain thinks about this.
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David Cullen Bain is seeking a judicial review of his compo case. All this guy does is cost the government money.
Lawyers acting for David Cullen Bain have today lodged a claim in the Auckland high court against the Minister of Justice seeking judicial review of the actions taken by her since she received Justice Binnie’s report in late August 2012.
Hon Judith Collins, Minister of Justice has commented;
“David Cullen Bain has filed judicial review proceedings today regarding his application for compensation.
Mr Bain’s application falls outside Cabinet guidelines and is entirely at Cabinet’s discretion. I have taken steps to ensure the process is fair and proper throughout.
Put simply, it would be unacceptable for Cabinet to base its decision for compensation on an unsafe and flawed report. That would not have resulted in justice for anyone, let alone Mr Bain.
Mr Bain has requested the Government put his application for compensation on hold. This will result in further delay. I am considering his request.
As this matter is now before the Courts I will not be commenting further.”
The Bain teams media statement also claimed that ;
“He no longer has any confidence that his claim is being assessed in a fair manner”
I hope that the court gives this short shrift and Bain is told to go away. Then once the court tells him to sling his hook, Judith Collins can ensure he is given nothing.
Andrew Geddis comments at NBR in an article by Rod Vaughan (paid content) about the compo grab of David Cullen Bain:
“The cynic in me thinks they thought that the case against Bain was so clear that anyone who came in to look at it was going to give them an answer and they could make it go away.
“I genuinely think that [former Justice Minister] Simon Power thought Binnie was going to come back and say ‘he’s guilty, you don’t have to pay him’.
“And when Binnie didn’t do that, that’s when the fur started to fly.” Read more »
Brian Rogers at SunLive isn’t a fan of those awful stick figure families people put in their back window…neither am I:
Sensible countries make it illegal to stick rubbish all over the windows of your car. Not here. You can have your entire stamp collection plastered on the glass and half your wardrobe hanging off the mirror… and still drive legally.
It appears the stick people are taking over the back windows in a relentless march of anorexic and artistically-challenged naffness.
Our research shows that stick people families have become necessary because, apparently, it is absolutely vital that following traffic know exactly the demographics of the vehicle in front. Right down to the individual leisure pursuits of said family members, plus the cat and the odd horse.
Really, how did we manage before? We had to guess the number, gender, size, occupation and sporting interests of the occupants. How nineties is that.
He starts wondering though what other celebrity family stick families might look like…including David Bain’s: Read more »
Cactus Kate isn’t impressed with Rodney Hide’s little bit of shark jumping in the NZ Herald:
In the meantime in HoS Rodney Hide is jumping the shark about the Canadian rogue Justice Binnie. I still cannot get over the pertinent fact that if David Bain did not kill his family, there is only Robin left and why on earth if you were slaughtering your family, wouldn’t you pop David after his paper run? Rodney has studiously read almost everything on the case in his superbrain sort of way and is now his usual determined self that Binnie is right and Bain should get compensation.
Go leave your own comments on his column. Be polite but firm
. I have already scrapped with him about it at length. He wins the academic argument but I still win at a practical level.
Rodney is being very technical…but in an area that Binnie was never asked to report on…and he is forgetting that Binnie exceeded his brief.
The NZ Herald seems to have changed it’s tune a fair bit on David Cullen Bain, now printing stories critical of Binnie, Bain and Karam.
This morning there was a letter from CK Stead:
I have an impression that in some degree, Justice Binnie may have entered the fray in the same spirit, seeing himself as someone called in to “right a wrong”, though he is certainly not, I should add, one who is impatient with the facts or unwilling to wrestle with them, one at a time.
But that “one at a time” is part of the problem.
He’s not the only one. Have a read through the various interviews that Binnie had and read with increasing anger at was clearly a bias and opinionated judge, off to make a name for himself at the expense of NZ taxpayers.
Stead picks up on this bias and wording and notes:
As Dr Fisher points out, a circumstantial case depends on the strength of a single rope made up of many strands, any one of which may be insufficient. Justice Binnie’s method is to begin with the Luminol footprints, the weakest strand (at least in the sense of being the most technical and therefore technically arguable), declare it favours David Bain, and then bring each of the other strands in the case up against those footprints and find it wanting. And it is to the footprints he returns first in his “Summary and conclusions as to factual innocence” (p.138).
Yet even Justice Binnie admits “‘luminescence’ in the dark does not exactly give rise to laser-like accuracy”, and agrees “there must be some room for error in the Luminol measurement” (p.79/257). It seems strange, therefore, that he has “no hesitation in recommending that the Minister accept the results of the tests of Mr Walsh” [for the Defence] (p.77/251), and proceeds from that point in a manner which suggests the case for innocence has been made and needs only be demonstrated by reiterating the defence argument against each of the other strands.
His consequent bias is apparent in statements like the following: “It is only the fingerprint blood that can tie David Bain rather than Robin Bain to the killings.”Only? And there is nothing at all that can tie Robin to the murder weapon except that he was killed with it!
Another example of this bias: “Nothing has been established beyond a reasonable doubt. Nevertheless, the cumulative effect of the items of physical evidence, considered item by item both individually and collectively, and considered in the light of my interview with David Bain” [my italics] … “persuade me that David Bain is factually innocent” (p.139/ 463). But why should items of fact, none of which, Justice Binnie concedes, is “free of difficulty”, be considered “in the light of” the accused’s own testimony, which is more likely than any other to be false?
A further example: “If David Bain’s recollection … is accepted, and I do accept it, then the force of the prosecution’s argument … is much diminished” (p.38/124). But of course if we only have to go to David Bain for the truth, then the prosecution’s argument is not just diminished – it’s dead! What kind of source is the accused for the truth of the matter in a case of murder?
Don’t believe an eminent and perspicacious writer as to the tone of bias throughout? Go read them for yourself…you will be astonished.
David Fisher has taken time out from gazing longingly into Kim Dotcom’s eyes to write an article obviously intended to try to poofinger Truth and our story about David Cullen Bain lying.
Unfortunately for David the paper was delivered yesterday and is available in stores now.
What David fails to tell the readers of the Herald is that it wasn’t actually the Herald that obtained the Official Information Act request…it was the Herald on Sunday…and they ran their story about this two Sundays ago conveniently ignoring this little bombshell because it didn’t suit their activism on behalf of David Cullen Bain. You will note that the article published two Sundays ago in the Herald on Sunday, editor Bryce Johns implies that Michael Guest said Bain should be paid compensation…when you will see below he says nothing of the sort.
Now we see the Herald on Sunday has passed on their OIA response to the NZ Herald…so much for the chinese walls and editorial independence ..shattered now…and have published an article 11 days and two Sundays after the Herald on Sunday received their response from the minister’s office.
David Cullen Bain and Joe Karam should be and explaining to the population why they are keeping evidence about the glasses hidden and why he lied about them in the first trial.
Truth has exclusive new details.
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