19 Jun 2018
ROBIN v IAG NEW ZEALAND LIMITED [2018] NZHC 1464
- Citation
- [2018] NZHC 1464
- Court
- High Court
The review succeeds: the Associate Judge erred by premising his joinder decision on a premature substantive view of IAG's contractual liability and by assuming sequential joinder down contractual chains when liquidation/receivership made such joinder unlikely; given the Newhaven test was met and a material change (CRL liquidation and receivership of related entities) made alternative joinder implausible, it was in the interests of justice to order Houselifters Ltd, Max Contracts Ltd and Christchurch City Council joined as defendants to avoid multiplicity and to protect potential subrogation a…