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14 December 2018 Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern Prime Minister of New 14 December 2018 Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern Prime Minister of New Zealand Members of the Justice Committee of New Zealand Parliament Rt Hon Trevor Mallard, Speaker of the House; Hon Andrew Little, Minister of Justice and for Courts; Hon Stuart Nash, Minister of Police; Hon Dr David Clark, Minister of Health and MP for North Dunedin; Hon David Parker, Attorney General New Zealand Police (Commissioner Mike Bush); Serious Fraud Office; Chief Justice of New Zealand; New Zealand Law Society; Ministry of Justice; State Services Commission; Auditor-General; Human Rights Commission; Wellington High Court Dear Prime Minister I am an enrolled Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand. You, as Prime Minister of New Zealand, have witnessed that there is absolute certainty that the organised crimes, using Justices Clifford and Collins of the High Court for fraud, took place in Wellington High Court, and the criminals used the false, forged documents for another organised crimes for the illicit purpose of bankruptcy fraud, bank robbery, and perverting the course of justice in Dunedin High/District Courts. Now, you must ask the following question: “was it possible for the costs order to be made without the Court receiving any submission on the costs, without having any hearing the Court?” Was it even possible for any costs order be made without involving a High Court judge in the decision-making process in the High Court of New Zealand? IT IS EXPECTED THAT YOU AS PRIME MINISTER OF NEW ZEALAND TO DO THE FOLLOWING: A. Ask Wellington High Court whether it is the normal procedure of the Court to send a costs order only to one of the litigants after the expiration of the appealing period, so that no appeal can be made on the costs order. Letter of Paul Collins, Barrister, Shortland Chambers, dated 12 November 2013 “I enclose a sealed duplicate original of the costs order made by the Court on 4 June 2013, which I received in the mail on Friday, 29 November, from the High Court Registry. You will see that costs have been ordered in the sum of $9,210 and disbursement of $1,439.88” https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxrb3lhbWFkb2N1bW VudHN8Z3g6MmM2YmVhYzZhMjY1OWJjYQ The FALSE sealed costs order, dated 4 June 2013, was sent ONLY to Paul Collins, without sending it to Tatsuhiko Koyama, one of the litigants in the case, by Wellington High Court on or around 29 November 2013, AFTER MORE THAN 6 MONTHS since the costs order was supposedly made, making it impossible for Tatsuhiko Koyama to appeal this matter due to the expiry of the appealing period. B. Ask Wellington High Court and see if they received any costs application on the costs order, dated 4 June 2013, on or around 4 June 2013. Wellington High Court confirmed that no costs application submitted to Wellington High Court on or around 4 June 2013. C. Ask Wellington High Court and see if there was a hearing on 4 June 2013 for the costs order, dated 4 June 2013. Wellington High Court confirmed that there was no hearing for the case of CIV-2010-485-001493 on 4 June 2013. D. Ask Wellington High Court and find out the name of the High Court judge who made the costs order, dated 4 June 2013. Wellington High Court could not provide the name of the High Court judge who supposedly made the costs order, dated 4 June 2013. E. Ask Wellington High Court about the fact that the confirmed, false, forged document, dated 4 June 2013, was used for another confirmed organised crimes, committed in Dunedin High Court (the crimes of using false document for pecuniary gain, bankruptcy fraud, bank robbery by deception, etc.), in violation of the Crimes Act 1961. Letter of Mitch Singh, Associate, Glaister Ennor, dated 28 January 2016 https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxrb3lhbWFkb2N1bW VudHN8Z3g6NzhjM2M4MWVmMWM4NWI4Mw F. Ask Wellington High Court or Ministry of Justice to provide a copy of the audio-recording of the hearing in Wellington High Court on 11 July 2012 for the case of CIV-2010-485-001493. CONFIRMED, FALSE, FORGED DOCUMENT OF THE HIGH COURT OF NEW ZEALAND (RESERVED JUDGMENT OF DOBSON J, DATED 17 JULY 2012, sent by Sheena Spiers, Team Leader (Civil), Ministry of Justice, on 17 July 2012) https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxzaXRlc3RhdHN1aGl rb2tveWFtYWRvY3VtZW50czR8Z3g6NjdkOTM2Y2MwYTc2NGNjYg https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxzaXRlc3RhdHN1aGl rb2tveWFtYWRvY3VtZW50czR8Z3g6MWZkYjY4N2Q1Mzk5ZDhmZA There are two documents with different signatures of Justice Dobson of the High Court of New Zealand; these documents have their respective dates only a month part. (1) Signed letter of Dobson J, dated 16 August 2012, to Winkelman J; and https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxzaXRlc3RhdHN1aGl rb2tveWFtYWRvY3VtZW50czR8Z3g6NDVlZjg4YzI5ZmQ0NGVlYg (2) Signed "RESERVED JUDGMENT OF DOBSON J," dated 17 July 2012, (sent by Ministry of Justice on 3 May 2017). https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxzaXRlc3RhdHN1aGl rb2tveWFtYWRvY3VtZW50czR8Z3g6MzAyM2Y1NGYwZjI0YzFkZg https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxkb2N1bWVudHNrb 3lhbWF8Z3g6MThjYTNiZDViODRkNjc4MA (3) DIRECT COMPARISON OF THE SIGNATURES, CLEARLY INDICATING THE FORGERY OF THE DOCUMENT, DATED 17 JULY 2012 https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxzaXRlc3RhdHN1aGl rb2tveWFtYWRvY3VtZW50czR8Z3g6NzE4MDgyYjE2YzBjY2E2Ng (4) Neither Wellington High Court nor Ministry of Justice could provide the audio-recording of the hearing in Wellington High Court on 11 July 2012 in this case. As with other confirmed fake costs orders, using the names of Justices Clifford and Collins for fraud, the fake costs order, dated 4 June 2013 is a FALSE, FORGED document, issued by Wellington High Court, which was used in the confirmed organised crime in Dunedin High/District Courts for bankruptcy fraud, bank robbery by deception, perverting the course of justice, very serious offences under the Crimes Act 1961. This matter requires your leadership, due to the endemic, widespread corruption in New Zealand. Yours truly Tatsuhiko Koyama, BA, Juris Doctor, PGDipHealSc, MHealSc, DipGrad Enrolled Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand 17 Radnor Street, North East Valley, Dunedin 9010 TEL: (03) 473-7810 From: Tatsuhiko Koyama <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, 12 December 2018 at 8:19 AM To: "Rt. 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