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		<title>Constitutional hui</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Colin James in the DomPost&#160;today&#160;reminds us that the government agreed with the Maori Party to conduct a constitutional review. Colin says that the terms of reference will be released shortly.
But the article looks as if might have been chopped short by a sub-editor. I took particular note because of the&#160;cryptic reference to&#160; ACT in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stephenfranks.co.nz/?p=2940</link>
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		<title>Staying clear of &#8216;climate change&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every so often I get sucked back into reading &#39;climate change&#39; arguments. I&#160;bought Gareth Morgan&#39;s book as a patriotic duty &#8211; when an intelligent New Zealander&#160;pays for me to get an objective account then I owe it to him to see what he thought. 
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Since then I&#39;ve&#160;left the stuff pretty much alone. Unless&#160;you&#39;re prepared to&#160;learn [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stephenfranks.co.nz/?p=2811</link>
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		<title>Sir Ron Trotter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the next few days we&#39;ll hear much on Sir Ron&#39;s contribution. I&#39;ll listen with none of &#160;the reservations one&#160;often has about eulogies for people you know from working with them and for them, in strife and in success.
When I opposed the abolition of knighthoods and celebrated their restoration it was Ron I thought of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stephenfranks.co.nz/?p=2915</link>
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		<title>Scammers and the orb</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Receiving&#160;a Yellow Page fax scam&#160;this morning prompted me to check out Internet NZ&#39;s new orb service.&#160;It is for online crime and the NetSafe providers probably see fax scams as belonging to the steam age.
I hoped that Orb might offer a download&#160;of a simple one button click to&#160;send off a spam message to Orb. Apparently not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stephenfranks.co.nz/?p=2907</link>
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		<title>Pricing the risks of public company directorship &#8211; the Feltex decision</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Chapman Tripp have two crisp public comments for directors. The first applauds Judge Jan Doogue&#39;s refreshingly unequivocal decision in the Feltex case, though noting some chinks that could undermine its precedent power.&#160;
The second&#160;Chapman Tripp comment&#160;reminds directors of new risks down the line, if public enforcement of directors duties codified into the Companies Act&#160;is not confined [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stephenfranks.co.nz/?p=2899</link>
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		<title>Supreme Court and Wilson emails &#8211; post script</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The emails are mysterious in one respect &#8211; it seems that much of the early discussion between Jim Farmer QC and Sir Edmund Thomas preceded a thorough understanding of the facts. Astonishingly it seems Jim Farmer may not have seen the relevant company indebtedness documentation and accounts at any time covered by the correspondence. Nor [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stephenfranks.co.nz/?p=2886</link>
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		<title>Sick Supreme Court &#8211; Wilson case emails</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I was proud to move the admission to the bar of&#160; Jordan Williams,&#160;from my firm&#39;s staff. The presiding judge (former Waitangi Tribunal Chair&#160;&#160;Joe Williams)&#160; reminded the new entrants (and their moving counsel) to live up to the professional standards required to maintain our centuries-built inheritance of the rule of law. That means&#160;placing service ahead [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stephenfranks.co.nz/?p=2881</link>
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		<title>NZX not alone in driving off listings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Under the headline &#39;German Giants Flee Wall Street&#39;&#160;Der Spiegel&#160;notes&#160;another stage in the decline of&#160;the NYSE as the world&#39;s dominant exchange.
&#34;&#160;&#8230; With expensive accounting rules, an increased threat of litigation and hundreds of millions of dollars in fines for some firms, the once prestigious New York Stock Exchange and other American markets have become unattractive to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stephenfranks.co.nz/?p=2877</link>
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		<title>Bad timing Mr Locke, on gun registration</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Keith Locke&#39;s call for gun registration&#160;maintains the Greens&#39; usual faith in government&#160; It follows last week&#39;s Sunday Star Times &#39;expose&#39; of how many firearms are circulating. But both&#160;come at a curious time.
Because New Zealand&#39;s law has just been praised&#160; by the authors of an international survey of firearms law, and firearms murder rates. The Herald&#39;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stephenfranks.co.nz/?p=2871</link>
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		<title>Matt Ridley on &#8220;when ideas have sex&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Take Matt Ridley&#39;s Ted-Talk of 15 minutes for an inspiring&#160;explanation of&#160;gains from trade. From the comment thread it seems&#160;it helped even some Greens to understand.
Thanks Brent Wheeler and Alan Dormer
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