29 May 2018
MORAHAN v WELLINGTON STANDARDS COMMITTEE 2 [2018] NZHC 1229
- Citation
- [2018] NZHC 1229
- Court
- High Court
Tribunal correctly limited its disciplinary findings to post-1 August 2002 conduct while using pre-2002 events as context; it permissibly treated the allegations as a course-of-conduct charge and, on the proved post-2002 particulars, found breaches of rr 1.05 and 1.07 and of rules governing conduct as officer of the court and discovery (rr 13.1, 13.5, 13.9); those breaches amounted to negligence/incompetence reflecting on fitness to practice and justified a four-month suspension and costs within the Tribunal's discretion; omissions in explicit articulation of every particular did not invalida…