1 Jun 2022
BLAKE v THAMES DISTRICT COURT [2022] NZHC 1235
- Citation
- [2022] NZHC 1235
- Court
- High Court
The stay application was dismissed: the applicant failed to demonstrate the exceptional circumstances required to justify judicial review of search warrants or an interim stay pending that review (following Gill); the District Court is the appropriate forum to test warrant validity and admissibility and judicial review would improperly interfere with criminal process; nine individually named defendants who acted as agents of statutory bodies are to be struck out as unnecessary personal defendants; limited discovery directions were given (disclose issued but unexecuted warrant and application;…