2019 November 28 Newspaper Edition

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CCRC Governance Officer Demonstrates Pattern of Legal Troubles SEAN DENT THE following facts are undisputed. Someone who introduces herself as Michaela Johnstone, age 38, also goes by the name Michaela Whatarau Milner, and she is Acting Executive Governance Officer at the Cassowary Coast Regional Council (CCRC). Charles Darwin University in Northern Territory admitted her as legal practitioner in 2004. She was a lawyer in Northern Territory up till 2008 where for a period she worked as an article clerk at Halfpenny Lawyers. She then moved to New Zealand, her country of birth, and worked for one law firm briefly before moving on to work for Tauranga law firm, Lyon, O’Neale, Arnold around 2010. They considered her a good and competent lawyer. In May 2013, she got stopped by the Tauranga police because she was seen driving erratically on the city’s security cameras. One police officer said, “It’s lucky no one was in-

jured or killed.” He also said, “She went through one red light, got halfway through and realised she had gone through the intersection, threw the brake on and reversed back to get out of traffic.” He said that she later came up so fast behind a car “smoke came off her tyres as she threw the brake on.” She was charged with dangerous driving, refusing to allow a blood specimen to be taken, and driving under the influence of alcohol. Her licence to drive was revoked for 28 days, but in the early hours of the next day, she was caught driving again, wilfully disregarding the law. She was due to appear in court in mid-July, which she failed to do because she abruptly quit her job and fled to Australia days before, in such a hurry that she left her car behind, which was impounded by the police. According to the Court Registry Officer at Tauranga District Court, a warrant was issued for her arrest and it is still active.

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