Sir Bob Jones
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Imaginative barristers continue to entertain with their arguments on behalf of clients facing off-beat, usually sexual offences.
The latest such quirky defence episode related to an Israeli-born GP practising in Kapiti, who felt compelled to examine women’s breasts when they (the women that is, not the breasts) came in with an unrelated problem, and whose defence was argued unsuccessfully by lawyer Donald Stevens.
Judge Robert Dobson, doubtless struggling to keep a straight face, dismissed Stevens’s plea that the root of the problem was a cultural one, thus implying that in Israel there was a broader acceptance of such carry-ons. We’re well familiar in New Zealand with the cultural bullshit argument being pulled to explain Maori criminal acts but this was certainly a first. Nevertheless, if it occasionally works for Maoris, then why not give it a crack for everyone else was presumably Stevens’s thinking, and indeed, why not?
That said, I would be very surprised indeed if a young Tel Aviv woman visiting her GP because of a sore toe, would happily strip off when the doctor said, “OK, then let’s have a look at your tits”. Then again, I shouldn’t prejudge this as Israeli girls do have a fairly rampant reputation and might joyfully comply with such requests.
My favourite defence going back to the 1990s was by a Lower Hutt lawyer, defending a Trentham race-course employee, who was found up a ladder having it off with a stabled mare. This was his second such offence.
His lawyer advanced the delightful defence that he was lonely.
It’s difficult to imagine a worst argument for the fairly obvious reason of a size-wise disproportionate physical relationship. In other words it’s certain the mare would have been oblivious to anything happening and thus unable to render any affectionate response to satisfy the accused’s loneliness.
The dullard judge threw it out although he failed to deliver that fairly obvious reason, relying instead, unimaginatively, with the act being illegal.
One thing’s certain. The government is currently seeking fresh revenue sources and should slap an entertainment tax on Lower Court judges for the daily vaudeville their job provides them.
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