1 Jul 2020
VAN DER VEEN v CHRISTCHURCH CITY COUNCIL [2020] NZHC 1534
- Citation
- [2020] NZHC 1534
- Court
- High Court
Section 57(3) requires destruction unless the circumstances at the time of the offence were exceptional; post-attack rehabilitation or assurances are irrelevant to that inquiry; a one-off failure to maintain effective control and an unprovoked attack in public are not exceptional, therefore the mandatory destruction order was correctly imposed.