16 Dec 2016
KERRYN MITCHELL v THE PRISON DIRECTOR AROHATA PRISON [2016] NZHC 3103
- Citation
- [2016] NZHC 3103
- Court
- High Court
The application to strike out as moot was declined: completion of a prison sentence does not automatically render challenges to treatment during imprisonment moot; none of the substantive issues had been decided and declaratory relief can be substantive, so the matters remain justiciable and should be determined rather than dismissed as academic.