New Zealand Case Law: Decisions & Judgments

Topic

Consolidation/joinder

Legal area

Court

21 Nov 2016

YAO WEI HE v ZHIXIONG CHEN [2016] NZSC 151

Citation

[2016] NZSC 151
Court

Supreme Court

The applications were dismissed because the proposed additional evidence was not relevant to the personal debt issue before the courts (the repayments by NZPIL concerned separate proceedings and could not be used as a defence in the debt proceedings), the evidence did not meet the requirements for fresh evidence on appeal, and the proposed appeal raised no issue of general or public importance nor an appearance of miscarriage of justice.
18 Nov 2010

SOLICITOR-GENERAL V SAGGERS HC AK CIV-2008-404-001456

Citation

openlaw-c17608ca_8974_4bb6_89be_8827576bbd26.pdf
Court

High Court

Because there was significant commonality between the forfeiture proceeding and the relationship property proceeding and a real risk of inconsistent findings if heard separately, the court directed under r 10.12 High Court Rules that both proceedings be heard at the same time before the same Judge; the Registry was directed to allocate a case management conference and costs for the hearing were ordered to lie where they fall.
20 Dec 2006

WARD V THE STANLEY WORKS & ORS HC AK CIV-2005-404-1685

Citation

openlaw-d8c68321_d8f4_43a4_a187_664cc7a534ec.pdf
Court

High Court

Plaintiff must amend the statement of claim to comply with R 725ZK by providing at least one concrete instance of each alleged type of infringement linking the act to a specific product, date and where applicable customer; defendant's application for particular discovery under R300 is dismissed as premature because general discovery has not yet been given; costs of the unsuccessful summary judgment application are reserved until final determination; stay application costs are fixed at $435; consolidation of proceedings is permissible only if plaintiff does not object to A J Park's continued i…

New Zealand Case Law

YAO WEI HE v ZHIXIONG CHEN [2016] NZSC 151

SOLICITOR-GENERAL V SAGGERS HC AK CIV-2008-404-001456

WARD V THE STANLEY WORKS & ORS HC AK CIV-2005-404-1685