7 Sept 2023
HENRIKSEN v R [2023] NZCA 430
- Citation
- [2023] NZCA 430
- Court
- Court of Appeal
The application for continuance was declined because the proposed appeal was unlikely to succeed on its primary ground (duplicity) given the trial judge lawfully made sentencing findings consistent with the jury verdicts, the forfeiture was consented to with a corresponding sentence reduction and the family acquiesced at the time, and the public interest in finality and proper allocation of limited judicial resources outweighed the private interests of the estate in pursuing a largely moot appeal.