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…