There is something disquieting about developers sooling lawyers upon citizens giving submissions to the leasehold inquiry.
The sooling has taken the form of defamation writs and applications to cross-examine those giving written submissions _ people of modest resources who do not have tax-deductible legal expenses and who are not working from the profit motive, though the developers would argue they are coming from a selfish position of keeping the city as it is.
Justice Paul Stein, who heads the inquiry, has quite properly rejected submissions to have lawyers cross-examine those giving submissions. The inquiry is not adversarial. It is an inquiry to see whether the law and administration of the leasehold system are working well or if there have been defects, to recommend change.
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