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Speaker 1: You wonder how long it would take for someone to

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Speaker 1: work out that the injunction over Tom Phillips and the

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Speaker 1: various bits and pieces weren't allowed to talk about would

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Speaker 1: done well be talked about. Maybe this is widely understood,

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Speaker 1: maybe it isn't. But an injunction is imposed by a

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Speaker 1: New Zealand court is applicable only in New Zealand. It's

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Speaker 1: an effective mechanism if you're living in nineteen seventy nine

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Speaker 1: or even nineteen ninety nine, but post the Internet and

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Speaker 1: especially social media, it borders on being pointless. So what

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Speaker 1: we have post the injunction on Phillips and the various

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Speaker 1: issues around his family is everyone knows what's in it

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Speaker 1: and have done basically from the start. Offshore operators are

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Speaker 1: spreading it about the place like no tomorrow, which led

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Speaker 1: some people Friday to raise it with the Justice Minister,

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Speaker 1: who is quote unquote having a look at it as

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Speaker 1: though that means anything, but he is not optimistic, no kidding,

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Speaker 1: which leads to the obvious question why go for an

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Speaker 1: injunction and also why would a judge offer an injunction

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Speaker 1: knowing no one internationally is going to adhere to it.

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Speaker 1: Answer to the first, I don't know answer to the second,

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Speaker 1: My guess is no judge wants the state wants to

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Speaker 1: state the obvious by admitting defeat, because in turning it down,

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Speaker 1: because it's pointless, you are in effect setting a precedent,

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Speaker 1: and every application going forward would be open to that precedent.

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Speaker 1: And therefore you don't want to be the person who

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Speaker 1: blew it all up. Also, do not underestimate I don't

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Speaker 1: think the egos associated with the judiciary, who, despite the

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Speaker 1: modern world, still hold the idea that they count for

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Speaker 1: something and they hold sway over the discourse of matters

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Speaker 1: in their courts. The other major issue, international outlets or not, is,

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Speaker 1: of course, the vacuum create a vacuum, it gets filled

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Speaker 1: with nonsense. Now I know what's in the injunction. I've

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Speaker 1: been told by people who know as well, So I

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Speaker 1: know the weirdness that's out there that isn't real or

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Speaker 1: indeed even close to it. So all in all, what

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Speaker 1: you've got the whole thing's monumental mess. Gossip rules the roost.

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Speaker 1: The real story is there to be had. It's all

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Speaker 1: over the world, and the judiciary might want to think

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Speaker 1: about how they handle these matters going forward because the

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Speaker 1: horse has bolted and the Justice Minister I can assure

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Speaker 1: you will not be offering anyone anything by way of solution.

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