David Bain: New Zealand; "Retired Canadian judge Ian Binnie stands by his recommendation that David Bain should be awarded compensation and believes the Government is shopping around to try to get a report that will allow it to dodge paying up," The New Zealand Herald reports. "It seems the Government is looking for somebody to give them the opinion they want, which is that David Bain should be denied compensation," the former Supreme Court member said. (Must Read; HL);

STORY: "Judge: They're shopping for answer they want," published by the New Zealand Herald," on January 23, 2014.

SUB-HEADING: "David Bain is innocent "on the balance of probabilities", believes Justice Ian Binnie."

GIST:Retired Canadian judge Ian Binnie stands by his recommendation that David Bain should be awarded compensation and believes the Government is shopping around to try to get a report that will allow it to dodge paying up. Justice Binnie spoke to the Herald following Justice Minister Amy Adams' announcement last week that the Government would start afresh on Mr Bain's claim for a payout for the 13 years he spent in jail before being acquitted at a retrial of the murder of his parents and three siblings in 1994. "It seems the Government is looking for somebody to give them the opinion they want, which is that David Bain should be denied compensation," the former Supreme Court member said. The Government should try to get somebody detached from the case - possibly another international jurist. "The problem now is that the Government has made it loud and clear what answer it wants and anybody taking on the assignment would see what happened to me for giving an answer that the Government didn't want. That is a new complexity that didn't exist when I went to New Zealand in January 2012."

The entire story can be  found at:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11406156&ref=rss

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