31 Oct 2022
Because the respondent produced a valid warrant authorising detention and the applicant did not challenge the warrant or assert any lawful defect, the detention was lawful and the habeas corpus application was dismissed.
15 Dec 2020
The Parole Board erred in law and reached unreasonable decisions by treating the applicant as an 'undue risk' without adequate assessment of the likelihood, nature and seriousness of future offending in light of his advanced dementia; the applicant's continued detention became disproportionate and arbitrary in breach of s 22 NZBORA (at least from 21 August 2018); the Board's 19 August 2019 decision is set aside and the Court ordered the applicant's release to appropriate external care within a time-limited period unless suitable secure care is located sooner.
10 Mar 2016
Leave to appeal out of time and to adduce fresh medical evidence were granted, but the substantive appeal was dismissed: there was no error by the sentencing Judge because significant medical evidence of serious ill health was not before the sentencing Judge and the appellant's condition deteriorated after sentence; post‑sentence deterioration is addressed by administrative remedies (Parole/Corrections), not by disturbing a valid sentence on appeal.