4 Oct 2023
HIKAKA-BEATTIE v R [2023] NZCA 480
- Citation
- [2023] NZCA 480
- Court
- Court of Appeal
Leave to bring a second appeal was denied because the proposed appeal did not raise any matter of general or public importance and there was no realistic prospect of demonstrating a miscarriage of justice given the concurrent findings of the District and High Courts that the object was a firearm and the sufficiency of the evidential basis for conviction.
- Leave to appeal
- Second appeal
- Miscarriage of justice
- Sufficiency of evidence
- Definition of firearm
- Discharge application (s147 criminal procedure act 2011)