25 Jun 2020
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS v PORI [2020] NZHC 1446 [25 June 2020]
- Citation
- [2020] NZHC 1446
- Court
- High Court
On the provisional evidence the respondent met the s7 eligibility and s13 behavioural criteria and posed a very high and imminent risk of serious sexual offending; less restrictive options must be considered and tried before ordering prison detention; Matawhāiti had not been tried and was ordered as the appropriate location for the interim detention order starting 25 June 2020; the court directed consideration of mental health or intellectual disability statutory applications and listed the substantive PPO for further hearing on 3 August 2020.