Roo – I agree with your observations about people putting great efforts into finding loopholes in laws (generally) instead of putting minimal effort into just following them, but whilst I don’t expect that the CTTT undertook some dramatic change of direction on the day that its metamorphous into the NCAT occurred, do you really think that in the light of its former Minister’s media release and the directions taken in the Bill that’s now before State Cabinet that it would uphold any O/C’s decision to refuse permission to keep a dog merely because its legs are 100mm too long or solely because a SBL may not include an “unreasonable refusal” clause?
I don’t……. but that doesn’t mean that Wirihana should rely on that or that there aren’t other factors in play, but I do believe that he must attend this week’s General Meeting (G.M.)and put his case as strongly as possible.
Anyway as Wirihana foreshadowed, he’ll be back after the G.M.