In a subsequent meeting of the respondent which took place on the 18th of July 2005, one of the commissioners persuaded the respondent to alter its original decision of 16th June 2005 by suggesting fairly forcefully that the Supreme Court judgment stipulated the manner in which respondent should deal with the application of the applicant (ANZ). |
More specifically it was suggested that the respondent deal with the matter purely on historical terms, that is to say confine itself to the circumstances that obtained at the time the first application of the applicant was made. On the basis of this, therefore, we were persuaded that the applicant's application for registration should be refused and this is what we eventually did. I am convinced, however, that the approach and the eventual decision resulting from it were largely political. |