7 Nov 2019
R v NEW ZEALAND POLICE [2019] NZHC 2901
- Citation
- [2019] NZHC 2901
- Court
- High Court
The appeal was dismissed and name suppression refused because the court found the likely loss of significant career options for a medical practitioner was a normal and foreseeable consequence of the proven offending and did not meet the statutory threshold of 'extreme hardship' under s200; on balance the public interest in open justice and the public's right to make informed choices about medical practitioners outweighed the hardship arguments, and family hardship amounted to ordinary embarrassment not undue or extreme hardship.