New Zealand Case Law: Decisions & Judgments | LexChat

Topic

Manufacture and supply of methamphetamine

Legal area

Court

14 Sept 2017

COMMISSIONER OF POLICE v ROULSTON [2017] NZHC 2220

Citation

[2017] NZHC 2220
Court

High Court

The police search evidence and the respondent's admissions gave reasonable grounds to find unlawful benefit from sustained manufacture and supply of methamphetamine; that finding satisfied the statutory threshold for restraint and profit forfeiture, and the court therefore granted a restraining order, an associated sale order and a profit forfeiture order to apply proceeds including seized cash and sale proceeds to satisfy the forfeiture.
14 Mar 2017

R v HINES & ORS [2017] NZHC 437

Citation

[2017] NZHC 437
Court

High Court

Apply s147 test to each contested charge by reference to totality of admissible evidence; where evidence permitted reasonable inference linking asset to proximate drug offending (land and Corvette) or established manufacture/possession/attempt by chronology, communications, expert evidence and forensic links, charges should remain for jury; where evidence failed to establish the critical element (asset derived from crime or meeting/transaction occurred) discharge is required. Party liability can be established absent physical presence where evidence shows procuring, directing or assisting the…