Collins rejects Power reforms - Part One

Justice Minister Judith Collins is starting to overturn some of the policy reforms made by her predecessor, Simon Power. Speaking this weekend on TV3’s “The Nation”, Ms Collins said she was not in favour of proceeding with an inquisitorial trial system for sex offences and cases involving children. Mr Power told “the Nation” last year he had hoped to have that introduced before he left Parliament. But Ms Collins said she believed you couldn’t take a common law system like our adversarial system, and then take on and put on parts of a civil system or an inquisitorial system. “You either have one or the other, otherwise great injustices will occur.” And she said she was snot convinced that the current investigation into minimum pricing for alcohol move to introducing it. Mr Power had ordered that study. Alcohol is our legal drug, our legal social drug 23/09/12