Mutton flaps and disbarred lawyers [1]
Wednesday, November 21, 2007 - 13:45. Updated on Wednesday, April 23, 2014 - 14:15.
Editor,
My heart bleeds for Mr. Christopher Harder (Harder likes a Fair Go, Letter 16 November, 2007) a disbarred lawyer in his homeland of New Zealand.
Where else in the world but with credulous Tongans could he be deemed respectable? Please Mr Harder, Tonga is now addicted to fatty mutton flaps, which no civilized Kiwi dares to eat. Tonga does not need another rejected product from New Zealand.
Your credentials to practice law in New Zealand are revoked, period. It is the equivalence of "disbarment" in the American legal system. Contrary to your self-ingratiating claims that you "consented to my name being removed from the NZ High Court Roll. There was no dishonesty related matters, rather judgement (sic) calls," you no longer can practice law in New Zealand.
Disbarment is serious punishment in your profession, I believe. You could have been suspended, fined, censured, or sanctioned from certain legal duties for lesser misbehaviors. But disbarment is punishment for conduct not fit to practice law, malpractice acts concerning clients, or for engaging in fraudulent acts against the legal system.
I am glad that "over 100 NZ lawyers and a number of Tonga lawyers have agreed to their (sic) names being used in support of my application." Who are these friends of yours Mr Harder?
But this is not about them, or the media, or about the NZ law tribunal.
This is about you. Of what little I've read in the New Zealand media, you are always blaming others for your problems, and never took responsibility for your actions. Now you are trying to bamboozle the Tongan people into believing in your innocence.
Since you are not fit to practice law in New Zealand, you are not fit to practice law in Tonga.
Sione A. Mokofisi
samokofisi [at] mac [dot] com