New Zealand Case Law: Decisions & Judgments | LexChat

Topic

Publication restraints

Legal area

Court

10 May 2021

SOLICITOR-GENERAL v NEWSROOM NZ LIMITED [2021] NZHC 1034

Citation

[2021] NZHC 1034
Court

High Court

The court awarded costs to the Solicitor-General because Newsroom proceeded to publish after written warning, engaged in conduct potentially amounting to contempt and an offence under s 11B(6) of the Family Court Act 1980, the publications clearly contained identifying information and caused a significant invasion of vulnerable childrens' privacy, and Newsroom's limited editing offers did not address the core problems; consequently the public interest exception to costs did not apply and costs follow the event.
10 Aug 2016

B v ALA [2016] NZCA 385

Citation

[2016] NZCA 385
Court

Court of Appeal

The application for leave to appeal was declined because the proposed legal questions lacked sufficient general or public importance and were factually without merit given the Employment Court's findings that the information was not publicly available and that the impugned statements fell within the scope of the settlement confidentiality obligations; moreover the compliance orders were narrowed to be no broader than necessary.