5 Mar 2021
NGĀTI WHĀTUA ŌRĀKEI TRUST v ATTORNEY-GENERAL [2021] NZHC 383
- Citation
- [2021] NZHC 383
- Court
- High Court
The Court refused to order the exclusion of the nominated witnesses and declined to impose a blanket prohibition on cross‑examination using documents that had not been recently brought to a witness's attention; it endorsed a default practice that additions to the common bundle should be provided with 48 hours' notice where possible under r 9.2, but held that the rule is not absolute and that the Court will permit questioning on documents outside that window where fairness and the interests of justice require it, taking account of tikanga and the primarily legal/illustrative nature of the evid…