Free Trevor Mallard!

I'm the first to admit that Trevor Mallard is not my favourite person. (A view that is probably reciprocated.) But the decision to oppose bail on the private prosecution over the punching of Tau Henare is trivial, vextatious, and a further waste of the courts time.

The Police decided not to prosecute, and it was with good reason. So the Judge should not tolerate such a waste of time and grant bail within the first ten seconds, then deal with the procedural matters.