29 Mar 2017
R v GREGORY JOHN ALSFORD [2017] NZSC 42
- Citation
- [2017] NZSC 42
- Court
- Supreme Court
Supreme Court (majority) allowed the Crown appeal and held that the electricity consumption data at issue did not attract a reasonable expectation of privacy in the form obtained, so police were entitled to use the data; breach of Privacy Act principles is relevant but not determinative of s30 admissibility; reliance on previously excluded 2010 material did not mandate exclusion of the subsequent evidence in the circumstances, and the evidence obtained from the 19 December 2012 searches is admissible at trial.