Second brief of evidence of Katherine Amanda Furfie, HNZC:

We recently received the second brief of evidence of Housing New Zealand Corporation manager Kathy Furfie, which can be viewed in its original form at this link.

Starting with paragraph 4.  Ms Furfie was sitting in the back of the room during the hearing on 3 August, and heard the exchange that took place regarding the statement Ms Furfie alleges she dutifully recorded from the complainant, Warren Frederick Dickie.

This exchange can be read at this link to the second part of the transcript of the hearing.  Page 13 onwards is of particular interest, and from page 23 onwards it becomes extremely interesting indeed.

Mr Mihaka's Maori agent pointed out that the policies and procedures of Housing New Zealand Corporation clearly document the processes to be followed, starting with taking a detailed written statement from the complainant and recording it on a "T-463 incident summary form or on a note pad if you do not have a form with you.":

When Mr Mihaka's Maori agent raised this, and pointed out that we'd never seen any statement from Dickie - apart from the slanderous and defamatory one we recently acquired from Police (see the transcript), the Tribunal made the extraordinary comment that if everyone followed policy we'd never get anything done - like evicting cheeky darkies from their homes for example:

We asked Housing New Zealand Corporation, and their solicitors, for a copy of the statement that Kathy Furfie alleges she received - and was supposed to have recorded - from Warren Frederick Dickie - we've asked for it repeatedly, as well as the identity of the Police officer who Housing NZ Corporation allege told them the defamatory lies about Mr Mihaka's alleged drug use etc.  The requests have been repeatedly ignored or refused, and Kathy Furfie is coming dangerously close to committing perjury as defined in the Crimes Act, as are other parties who have knowingly provided other false information to Courts and Tribunals regarding this matter.

Police have categorically denied the allegations of HNZC, and it is clear that Kathy Furfie's claims to have visited Dickie and recorded a statement of complaint from him as claimed in her briefs of evidence is an orchestrated litany of lies and half truths.  HNZC staff have simply engaged in a series of breaches of privacy and slanderous and defamatory little gossip sessions!

Response regarding application for recall of Court of Appeal decision:

Received a response from the Court of Appeal to Maori Agent Raue's application for recall of the decision of France J.

The requirement that the application be signed by the applicant or appellant personally is unnecessary - an injustice is an injustice no matter who draws it to the attention of the Court.  The Minute correctly states in paragraph 3 that the Rules do NOT specifically require the signature of the appellant.

The Court has cited the case of Hooper v Police, which was not decided 'on the papers', Mr Hooper appeared via video link by the look of it.

Ironically, any lawyer could have filed the application on behalf of Mr Mihaka, instead of Maori Agent Raue, and the lawyer's signature would have been acceptable.  Ironic because Mr Mihaka has so far been billed over $4,500 by lawyers Brett Crowley and Nathan Bourke for two appeals against the conviction for allegedly assaulting Warren Frederick Dickie.

The appeals were partly upheld, by France J, but would doubtless have been entirely successful if either of these two lawyers had realised that Mr Mihaka never received Disclosure prior to the trial, according to the Criminal Disclosure Act 2008.

Neither of these lawyers even noticed that there was no statement from the complainant to Police, let alone notice the very serious discrepancies between the various information and evidence relied on to convict Mr Mihaka.

Ironically, there seems to have been little or no consultation with tangata whenua (Maori) regarding the establishment of the role of Maori agents in the 1955 Law Practitioners Act, and no consultation with tangata whenua regarding the DISestablishment of the role.

More concerning are the attempts to erase all record of the shameful history of the role of Maori agents in conning Maori out of their land - defrauding Maori.  More legislation is being passed to further alienate tangata whenua from their land.

The site will be updated with our response shortly.