Well, I know we celebrate Queen's birthday today with a holiday and in certain quarters Kent is considered a bit of an old Queen. He certainly thinks that Joe Karam has given him a present by reducing the Statement of Claim against Parker and Purkiss from 54 to 37 pages and the number of claimed defamatory comments from around to 200 to approximately half that amount. Anyway Kent thinks it's a present, he even says that the drafted claim makes a 'lot more sense' than the original one.
An interesting event to celebrate if you were halfwit I suppose. Kent doesn't seem to consider that he's still facing a remarkable 100 individual claims. He solely sees it as some sort of victory without apparently considering that because he (Kent) hasn't managed any defence to this point Joe Karam could simply have decided on streamlining the process for Kent - something like helping a wayward soul walk the plank. The 'lot more sense' should be put into perspective against the scathing Judgement last year in the Auckland High Court where his defence was rejected and the Judge acknowledged the 'help' from Karam's own counsel in trying to expedite the process toward Trial. The result of this was an signal from the Judge that costs would be awarded against the defendants Parker and Purkiss for the failed effort of Parker in lodging an acceptable defence. Parker let this fact slip publicly, saying now 'my efforts this time last year were a dismal failure.' This was in response to the idiot 'bush lawyer' congratulating Kent on his 'efforts' which apparently saw Karam discard reference to a book by 'bush lawyer' mentioned in the original pleadings.
I hardly think old 'bushy' should be celebrating being 'culled' at this stage because nothing stands in the way of a simple suit against him once Parker has fallen foul as the 'publisher.' Interestingly, Parker now ignores that the Trade Me abandoned their position of not being the publisher and settled with Joe. Of course I know there is a significant difference between the 2 situations: Trade Me had top lawyers acting for them, covering up the mess left by TM's in house staff, while of course Kent has got sound 'advice' from old 'bushy.' 'How helpful for him,' the real Queen might say.
In a current circulation of gossip doing the rounds on the Trade Me settlement is something Kent might not enjoy hearing on his birthday - that a number of objections raised by Trade Me lawyers about some reported comment in the Statement of Claim were unceremoniously dropped by Karam. The number of pages in the statement of Claim were reduced, (streamlined if you like,) a number of the quotes objected to were withdrawn and a settlement of some sort was soon reached. I imagine Kent dressed in his tiara and pearl earrings on his birthday wouldn't want to think about that too much - he might get a head ache or even feel sick.
On reflection of how Trade Me had struggled with their status as publisher, Karam might simply have seen that 'less was more' could also be the case with the intellectually barren Parker, made things more simple for him, sort of like painting a picture as one does for toddlers. After all Joe Karam was helpful enough in having his lawyers attempting to help Parker to complete a defence which so obviously is beyond him.
I don't think Parker and Purkiss are going to enjoy the next 'strike out' hearing because they may realise that the efforts last year that were a 'dismal failure' were actually far advanced on whatever it is Parker can now hope to produce that he wasn't the publisher of defamatory material. Simple really.
Why would anyone expect Parker and Purkiss to be rational enough to see where they are wrong. The fact they have spent the last few years promoting a lie speaks volumes about their intelligence and integrity.
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