New Zealand Case Law: Decisions & Judgments | LexChat

Topic

Undertaking by counsel

Legal area

Court

8 Aug 2022

DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF HEALTH v PETER HUMPHREYS [2022] NZCA 359

Citation

[2022] NZCA 359
Court

Court of Appeal

Access to the Court of Appeal file was granted only for minutes, orders, judgments, pleadings and submissions; access to notes of evidence, affidavits and briefs was declined to protect confidentiality and privacy; counsel for the applicant must give an undertaking that confidential material in pleadings and submissions will be held only by counsel and not disclosed to Taikura Trust; no order as to costs.
9 Apr 2014

MIDGEN ENTERPRISES LIMITED v MORGAN [2014] NZHC 704

Citation

[2014] NZHC 704
Court

High Court

There was a serious question to be tried that the defendants had converted or were unlawfully detaining stock owned by the plaintiff; the defendants' argument for an implied term permitting relocation was weak; the balance of convenience favored the plaintiff because restoration of possession to a comparable carrier would best preserve the parties' positions and avoid irreparable prejudice; accordingly a mandatory injunction should be granted permitting the plaintiff to remove the stock to Pascoe Carriers with the plaintiff bearing for now any proven difference in storage and transport costs…