26 Aug 2011
RIGHT TO LIFE NEW ZEALAND INC v THE ABORTION SUPERVISORY COMMITTEE SC 73/2011
- Citation
- SC 73/2011
- Court
- Supreme Court
The Supreme Court granted leave to appeal limited to three specific issues — the scope of the Committee's powers to review certifying consultants, the evidential foundation for the High Court's findings about approval rates, and the High Court's jurisdiction to assess the lawfulness of consultants' decisions — and declined leave on other grounds because they were plainly untenable given the legislation's premise of the born alive rule and prior appellate reasoning.