THE court system, and to a larger extent New Zealand's system of justice, is not perfect.
No system ever is. But I would defend to the hilt the absolute necessity of having a system.
A case on Tuesday demonstrated the height of procedural justice in its duty to protect the defendant - the basic premise, in this country, that you are innocent until the Crown proves you guilty.
In this case of alleged sexual abuse, an incident of inappropriate touching by a chiropractor on a teenage boy 27 years ago, it rested on the complainant and the police proving to a judge it had happened.
The accused man, now in his 70s, was found not guilty by the judge.