The Conflicts-of-Interest Web Spins Wide . . . And Catches All (As Did the Trap I Set)
Jordan Kelly • 2 June 2026

Time to Look in the Mirror, 'Accreditors' . . . Can't You See It's NOT A Good Look?

When I launched this investigative archive, I didn't set out purely to document the apparently intended-to-be-fatal compromises in clinical “treatment” and the associated, catastrophic practitioner-level ethics failures . . . although those were certainly my primary objectives.


It was apparent to me from very early on that what I was uncovering was, underlying and facilitating such fundamental failures, massive rot in the foundations not only of the institution I was taking on, but also in the broader foundations of the national regulatory and global “accreditation” political structures.


As a journalist, a veteran public relations operative, a business/marcoms educator and a consumer advocate, I structured this platform to serve as a live, evolving trap to expose the absence of core institutional ethics. It has been, in a very real sense, a deliberate, controlled field test of their institutional integrity. And it's a test they are actively failing every single day.


I deliberately gave the established systems of authority the time, the rope, and the precise conditions necessary to either honour their statutory mandates or to complete their own reputational undoing. And they've consistently chosen the latter . . . to hang themselves with their own rope.


I have now given the three "premier" international accrediting bodies - the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA), the Australasian Veterinary Boards Council (AVBC), and the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (UK) (RCVS) - three and a half months and several rounds of detailed, revelatory, evidence-rich correspondence  to examine and act on . . . as well as the growing body of work on this very platform (and also on my newer initiative, the International Institute for Improvement in Veterinary Ethics (IIIVE.org). It has been, in large part, a deliberate baseline test to demonstrate their level of preparedness to act on their regulatory mandates and ethical duties (or not), in accordance with the very standards they use to bless institutions with their elite “accreditation” credentials.


All Three 'International Accreditors' Have Failed the Test . . And Spectacularly


The extensive, unyielding paper trail of correspondence with Dr Samantha Morello (AVMA) and Kate Simkovic (AVBC) can be fully reviewed in the Harry Kelly Case Study on IIIVE.org.


The remaining global "accreditor" I want to focus on today, however, is the UK-based RCVS.


The RCVS's Senior Standards and Advice Officer and Solicitor, Ky Richardson, has previously and expressly acknowledged that all registered veterinary clinics and practices -including university clinical facilities -are expected, in accordance with accepted international standards, to provide the names of the staff involved in a client's pet's care.


Yet, three and a half months later, Massey University remains stubbornly locked into its refusal to do so. In its latest defensive manoeuvre, Massey stated it would only provide those crucial identity records to the Veterinary Council of New Zealand (VCNZ).


After multiple twists and turns, and now an active formal Law Society complaint against its Chief Executive, Iain McLachlan (a registered lawyer), the VCNZ finally undertook, two weeks ago, to hand those names over to me . . . but have, predictably enough, retreated to their now five-month-old “holding pattern”, showing absolutely no sign of fulfilling that obligation. I have already written several detailed articles exposing the internal conflicts of interest behind that specific domestic hornet's nest.


But let us set the local deflections aside. Today's article is designed to pull back the curtain on the web of conflicts of interest operating at the international level. This is an exposure that doesn't merely dismantle the credibility of the RCVS/Massey relationship; it fundamentally compromises the integrity of the accreditation credentials stamped onto every other institution that the RCVS purports to regulate.


They walked blindly into an ethical assessment of my design, and the resulting data is absolute gold for any student of international corporate governance.


'International Accreditation':  Does It Represent Any Real-World, Ground-Level Currency At All?


For international tertiary students of public relations, corporate governance, and institutional ethics, the narrative irony of this real-time crisis management disaster breaches a critical threshold.


According to official, public credentials published by Massey University, "Dean" Jon Huxley (Head of the "School" of Veterinary Science) explicitly states in his staff biography profile:


"I currently sit on the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) Course Accreditation Visitations Panel."


The man overseeing an institution under active Ministry of Primary Industries’ animal welfare investigation, who sent a private briefing email to the VCNZ  on the same day as he issued a heavy-handed legal threat to silence me (which clearly wasn’t particularly effective), simultaneously sits on the panel that audits and accredits veterinary schools globally for the very body - the RCVS - that has acknowledged Massey's name redaction practices as contrary to all international standards.


The RCVS Course Accreditation Visitations Panel is a premier international regulatory entity tasked with auditing, inspecting, and certifying that veterinary schools worldwide maintain the absolute highest thresholds of clinical execution, operational transparency, and ethical integrity.


This revelation introduces a profound structural contradiction into this real-time case study, presenting a textbook core ethical question for business and compliance students everywhere (and one I intend to present them with in my eventual tertiary-level educational productions dissecting the entire horror of it all):


That Core 'Ethics' Question Is This . . .


How can a senior academic credibly sit on an international panel that audits and enforces the clinical and educational standards of the global veterinary profession, while concurrently overseeing an internal institutional culture accused of systematic Official Information Act (OIA) evasions, withholding critical medical administration records, and utilising centralised corporate legal funds  to insulate a broken veterinary ICU from transparency?


The man who sits on the panel certifying that other schools meet the highest standards of clinical execution, operational transparency and ethical integrity is the same man whose own school is under active government investigation for the exact opposite of all three. Would he even recognise high standards if he came face-to-face with them in a dark alley?


Shouldn't "Dean" Jon Huxley be focusing his time and supposed intellect on fixing the phenomenal mess in his own institution, festering away fatally under his own watch?


To say nothing of the gross clinical incompetencies and astounding ethics failures in the actual "treatment" of the animals entrusted into the “care” of his “Companion Animal ‘Hospital’”?


Here's what I understand to be the role of someone executing that specific duty on behalf of the RCVS:


Members of the Visitations Panel are the expert auditors sent directly into global veterinary schools. They inspect the facilities, audit clinical files, interview staff, evaluate ethical governance, and feed into the definitive Visitation Report detailing the school's strengths, weaknesses, and compliance.


To shun clinical language for a moment . . . Holy. Shit.


If I didn't hold the honorable Dean in such utter derision, I'd almost feel sorry for him.


Huxley’s fellowship with the RCVS and his seat on the Course Accreditation Visitations Panel are what he clearly considers his ultimate badges of global authority.


The Ultimate Assassination of the Academic Ego


So now, walking (no doubt, formally striding) into a peer institution knowing that a permanent, evidence-rich archive explicitly, and very bloody deservedly, is "out there" granularly challenging his credibility to audit other schools' ethics . . . with the name-redaction ploys overseen by his administration, Chief of Staff Jodie Banner's  persistent and repeated fancy footwork OIA and Privacy Act evasions, and all the other associated antics in his own “school” . . . must be a total nightmare for an insatiable academic ego.


Take a look at the ethics” malarkey alone, that the man is presiding over in his own institution. Let alone the clinical standards and any working comprehension of “quality assurance”. There are even criminal acts being committed. How much worse could it actually get?


And just since Huxley considers himself the premium academic, let’s be clear about what his decisions and the conduct he approves at his hallowed “accredited” learning facility have actually provided:


That is, they have provided all the raw material that could ever be needed for a high-profile international case study – a mere component of which is the real-time demonstration of how personal international panel appointments and institutional commercial ambitions become fundamentally incompatible with real-world clinical accountability.


Ironically, the very instruments he wields to audit the global veterinary education sector are not at all dissimilar to the mechanisms currently dissecting Massey University's own “ethics”, “governance”, “institutional”, “educational” and “clinical” "standards" . . . and they’re being wielded by one lone, particularly pissed-off, deceived-and-bereaved pet owner-client. With one and three-quarter hands tied behind her back.


Oh, and PS to Jon Huxley:


Do pass on to your partner, wife, whatever (I don’t care), Jacqui Huxley of Apex Cardiology, that I find her most callously rude - or rudely callous, whichever, both are gross understatements anyway - in never even having acknowledged my emails regarding Harry's demise.


Of course, any veterinary cardiologist with a beating heart would have expressed sadness. But even out of basic professionalism, given that she had been his cardiologist for something like three or more years, she might have at least said something.


I mean, if nothing else, he was a profit centre for her that she doesn't have any more.


But there you have it. These are the hands being placed on your beloved pets at Massey's Companion Animal Hospital and, unfortunately, also by some of these affiliated with it, too.


Despicable doesn't come anywhere near cutting it, does it?


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Verification Sources & References:


Official Academic & Panel Credentials Profile: The verified statement confirming "Dean" Jon Huxley's active position on the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) Course Accreditation Visitations Panel as publicly documented on his official Massey University biography page: https://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/expertise/profile.cfm?stref=747450


Institutional Accreditation Strategy: To review how heavily Massey University relies on international accreditation frameworks (including the RCVS, AVMA, and AVBC) for its global marketing and educational standing, see the core institutional declarations here: https://www.massey.ac.nz/about/colleges-schools-and-institutes/college-of-sciences/school-of-veterinary-science/ 

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Readers following the coverage of my attempts to get to the bottom of what happened to my beloved little papillon, Harry, with whom I was extraordinarily closely bonded, will know that: (A) The rot in Massey University’s Companion Animal “Hospital” (CAH) runs deep. (B) Honesty and transparency is not their policy. Denial, dismissal, stonewalling, legal threats and intimidation are. (C) Animals aren’t safe there, with cruelty embedded in “care”, and your property (as your pet legally is) not considered your property at all, as far as Massey, its CAH staff and management are concerned. Your pet is theirs ; to do with as they please, according to their mindset and their modus operandi. And if that involves catastrophic levels of unauthorised, contraindicated, convenience sedation to facilitate their use of your pet in monetised student video collections (including on private cell phones, and to which you will be given no access), this too, according to Massey, is its own God-given right and “best practice” Standard Operating Procedure. (D) “Informed Consent” has a very different meaning in the Massey playbook to that which is generally deemed its accepted definition. (E) “Accountability” is a foreign concept and not one with which they have any intention of becoming acquainted. (F) Laws – including those governing animal welfare, property conversion and more – are not only optional, in Massey’s case, they simply don’t apply. In fact, they appear blissfully ignorant of them according to my (and Harry's) experience. You know all that. 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UPDATE: Since the original February 17 publication of this article, and despite Massey's ongoing efforts to obscure the identities of those involved , the clinician who delivered the fraudulent diagnosis and administered the lethal injection has been identified by her full name: Dr Steffi Maja Jalava . She is far from the only person culpable for the torture, the fraud, and the fully unnecessary termination of Harry's life . However, Jalava's completely false "terminal" "neurological" "diagnosis" and "prognosis" delivered throughout two hours of aggressive coercion - after " teaching" staff had finished their unauthorised and unspeakably cruel utilisation of Harry in student activities and filming - were the grounds on which I was duped into signing a "euthanasia" "consent" form . . . and worse still, participating therefore in the wrongful killing of my own deeply beloved dog . My investigation to uncover the names of the ICU staff who, on the night of November 30 , began the catastrophic repeated sedative cocktail overdosing , will continue. As will my endeavours to determine - what I believe is the near-certainty of the fact and the identities of whom administered - the undocumented continuance of the sedation prior to my arrival in order to facilitate the plan to present Harry falsely to me as having suffered some sudden "neurological" event or decline . . . so that I would sign the form for his immediate "euthanasia" . The falsification of clinical records designed to bury this evidence — including the December 3 data scrub and the manipulation of Harry's Patient Change Log — is the subject of Police Report OR-2484821N. Harry WAS A Marked Dog. I Had Hoped Massey Vet Staff Couldn't Have Been Any More Wicked Than They'd Already Been Caught Out Being. But YES , Actually, They COULD .
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