16 Dec 2020
M (SC 82/2020) v ATTORNEY-GENERAL [2020] NZSC 145
- Citation
- [2020] NZSC 145
- Court
- Supreme Court
Leave to appeal was granted only in part: the Supreme Court allowed a single approved question addressing whether the applicant was unlawfully detained after 20 December 2008 given the Attorney-General's direction was not issued until 14 January 2009; all other grounds lacked sufficient prospects of success or practical consequence and leave was refused. The Court relied on the concurrent factual and legal findings below, absence of pleaded issues for some constitutional questions, and the lack of practical prejudice from absent guidelines to deny further leave.