Original sentence: His lawyers also requested in January 2008 that the Ministry of Justice establish a Royal Commission of Inquiry into the case, but Associate Justice Minister Rick Barker rejected this approach in March 2008
Edited sentence: "must add to concerns expressed previously that that case may have gone awry".Emperical analysis allowed Hayne to conclude that  there was a "strong risk that the evidence of children who told of sexual abuse by Ellis was contaminated by the way the interviews were carried out and that, contrary to Eichelbaum's conclusions, "the standard of the questions in Ellis was not substantially better than those in Michaels".Frances's articles and Hayne's research were cited in January 2008 by Ellis's counsel when making a renewed request that the Ministry of Justice establish a Royal Commission of Inquiry into the case, but Associate Justice Minister Rick Barker rejected this approach in March 2008.In December 2008 the New Zealand Innocence Project heard from University of Otago Professor Harlene Hayne of her research which compared the standard of interviews conducted in the Ellis case with those of the Kelly Michaels case.In late 2007 a series of three artcles articles were published in The New Zealand Law Journal.These included New Evidence in the Peter Ellis Case.by researcher Ross Francis which prompted Sir Thomas Thorp to comment that the articles