Graeme Edgeler: electoral law expert and barrister on the former Labour ministers declining to appear for the Covid inquiry
Heather du Plessis-Allan Drive · Newstalk ZB
Audio is streamed directly from the publisher (pdst.fm) as published in their RSS feed. Play Podcasts does not host this file. Rights-holders can request removal through the copyright & takedown page.
Show Notes
A constitutional lawyer says the Royal Commission of Inquiry has the power to summons ex-ministers to front for its Covid enquiry.
It's called off its second week of hearings after Chris Hipkins, Dame Jacinda Ardern, Grant Robertson, and Ayesha Verrall declined to appear.
It says it shouldn't diminish the inquiry - as all have privately given evidence.
Lawyer Graeme Edgeler says the Commission just needs to consider if it'll miss out on key information without a summons.
"If the answer to that was yes, then they should exercise it. They seem to think at the moment that they don't need need to have the summons, but it's something they have in their back pocket."
LISTEN ABOVE
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.