Your views: Koda’s law and retail
ANNE MORRIS: I read with interest the views of the Law Society regarding Koda’s Law (Lawyer’s oppose ‘Koda’s Law’, InDaily, October 2, 2013) and was not surprised that legislation already exists to make assaults such as Koda suffered an offence. As if they would not be.
I was however surprised at the swiftness with which the proposed legislation was drafted and presented in Parliament and ask why there was this unseemly and unthoughtful rush. Was it the opportunity to get yet another piece of “law and order” legislation through on the raft of public outrage after a hard working police dog was injured in the line of duty? Surely our equally hard working and respected police officers have enough laws to administer as suggested by the Law Society and do not need Koda’s Law as well.
BRONTE ALLAN: Re the article from Toby Bensimon (Landlords add to retail pain, InDaily, September 20, 2013) about retailers, especially jewellers, being hit with increasing rentals, above their profit margin percentages – why is this so? I have it on good authority that all major suburban shopping centres will have boom gates/pay to park systems in operation within the next year or two, starting with West Lakes and finishing at Elizabeth city.
One of the main reasons shoppers do not like going to the city to shop is because of paid parking, and now suburban centres are about to introduce them! Is it madness or greed by the large shopping centre owners?
Large shopping centres were once slated to be your “one-stop, all you need under one roof” places to shop, but sadly this looks like being no longer the case. I will refuse to access any shopping centre that forces you to have to go through a boom gate and get a ticket, just to shop. I know they will have “incentives”, like the first few hours free, but you still have to queue, go through a boom gate, get a ticket, then make sure you do not run foul of the parking inspectors, just to shop.
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