20 Jun 2023
THOMPSON v CANOE RACING NEW ZEALAND INCORPORATED [2023] NZHC 1533
- Citation
- [2023] NZHC 1533
- Court
- High Court
The constitution's disciplinary provisions (rules 10.3 and 10.6) permit CRNZ to discipline and expel a member for conduct prejudicial to the objects or interests of CRNZ or bringing the sport into disrepute without a temporal qualification; the investigator's enquiries were adequate and the board was entitled to act on her reports so expulsion was valid, but CRNZ breached natural justice in the suspension decision by failing to afford Mr Thompson a sufficient opportunity to be heard in the short timeframe imposed for response to the proposed suspension, therefore judicial review succeeds only…