New Zealand Case Law: Decisions & Judgments | LexChat

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Court

19 Nov 2015

SLATER V BLOMFIELD [2015] NZCA 562

Citation

[2015] NZCA 562
Court

Court of Appeal

The application for leave to adduce further evidence was dismissed because the material relied on was not shown to be fresh, was largely inadmissible hearsay and not cogent, and could with reasonable diligence have been produced in the High Court; accordingly Asher J's balancing under s 68(2) was not displaced.
24 Feb 2015

HAGER v ATTORNEY-GENERAL [2015] NZHC 262

Citation

(2015) 22 PRNZ 550
Court

High Court

On balance under s69 Evidence Act the public interest in preserving confidentiality of the part 3 documents outweighed the public interest in disclosure; the Police were entitled to a direction that those documents remain confidential and not be available to the applicant's counsel, while selected open documents may be disclosed to the applicant and to a retained expert subject to undertakings and specified redactions.