20 Sept 2021
REYNOLDS v FAMILY COURT AT CHRISTCHURCH [2021] NZHC 2465
- Citation
- [2021] NZHC 2465
- Court
- High Court
The Court held that delegating the administrative task of placing applications into Court-provided hearing slots to DAMHS was lawful and not an unlawful delegation of judicial power; there was insufficient basis to judicially review the scheduling as a failure to act "as soon as practicable" on the facts; however, the Court erred in law by refusing to hear the applicant's s16 review on the ground that a s14 certificate and a pending Part 2 application rendered the s16 application "out of time" — issuance of s14 does not automatically preclude a s16 hearing and the applicant was entitled to be…