16 Jun 2014
Dotcom & ors v Attorney-General [2014] NZHC 1343
- Citation
- [2014] NZHC 1343
- Court
- High Court
The Court applied the High Court Rules and privacy statutes to the evidence and circumstances and (1) found sufficient grounds under r 8.19/r 8.7 to order limited particular discovery only in respect of correspondence/memoranda between NZ Police and GCSB concerning the Ministerial certificate (Category 7) and required defendants to file affidavits about such documents; (2) ordered non‑party discovery from DPMC/Roy Ferguson narrowly limited to documents bearing on GCSB surveillance legality and knowledge of illegality; (3) declined to permit collateral use of discovered documents in unrelated…
- Search and seizure
- Discovery (particular and non‑party)
- Use of disclosed documents (collateral use)
- Privacy principles and journalist material
- Ministerial certificate
- Gcsb surveillance