Plague of 'tribunalitis' has cost taxpayer dearly

OVER the last decade this little nation has been plagued with a very bad case of tribunalitis.

At the start of this saga we were faced with apparent corruption in those areas of business and commerce where there was a very clear interface between the private and public sectors. It appeared that rules, legal and taxation, were there to be broken and that every licence or approval carried with it the ability to make money.

Our adversarial legal system coupled with political clientism was unable to deal with it. So commenced this saga of tribunalitis, which has cost us dearly. It might have been worth the cost if there had been any real positive