Dr EMILY HENDERSON (Labour—Whangārei): I thank you for your forbearance in my misgendering you, Madam Speaker. I rise in support of this bill, and I want to tautoko what my colleague has just said. Our support of this bill to select committee stage is about not playing politics for politics' sake, and I commend the work of our chair, Ginny Andersen, in the Justice Committee, and I know that the committee will give this the appropriate attention, because an idea that is reasonable should be explored. I speak to this as a practising lawyer in my past life and as the daughter of a lawyer. I was raised in a legal tradition that puts a great deal of emphasis on pro bono legal work. It is a longstanding tradition of the legal profession that we volunteer our time for others. In fact, I would just want to bend the House's ear for a short moment with a little bit of legal history. Back in the Middle Ages when barristers first appeared—