Stretching the "Fit and Proper" Test
In 2001 a Napier lawyer and cannabis addict Philip Jensen was fined $1,500 for cultivating and possessing cannabis.
Jensen's lawyer submitted that he is a cannabis addict, had pleaded guilty to cultivation and co-operated fully with police. He asked that Jensen be discharged without conviction.
In 2011 a Napier lawyer Philip Jensen stood up in a Napier Court room and in defending a Mongrel Mob trainee who thinks "sieg heil" is an acceptable way of "saying hi to the bros" came up with this explanation:
As Hungahunga left the dock, his lawyer Philip Jensen remarked that "it was a German phrase popular in the 60s in the Commando comics".
"Actually it goes back a bit further than that, Mr Jensen. It was made popular in the 30s when very different rules applied," Judge Adeane said.
I wonder if they are the same Philip Jensen's and if so whether he is still rolling his own?
posted by Cactus Kate at 3:52 AM
3 Comments:
"Fit & Proper" wasn't a consideration under the "82 act for the annual issue of a practicing certificate by a district society.
Under the '06 act it is now.
There people having nasty surprises when charges are laid bfore the NZLCDT when they are convicted, in the courts, of offences for which one of the punnishments is imprisionment.
If convicted of such an offence the outcome of such is stiking off by the tribunal. No ifs, no buts. Iosefa is an example.
The Mongs' lawyer in da Bay gets paid in dak? Not beyond the realms of possibility, one would have to think ...
Could it be that Philip Jensen just has a really great sense of humour?
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