3 Dec 2021
GARTH BOWKETT PATERSON v LEPIONKA & COMPANY INVESTMENTS LIMITED [2021] NZSC 171
- Citation
- [2021] NZSC 171
- Court
- Supreme Court
Leave to appeal was refused because the proposed appeals merely repeat contentions already resolved in prior proceedings and therefore constitute an abuse of process; the malicious prosecution claim cannot succeed while the underlying adjudication remains extant, and the Court of Appeal was correct to strike out the appeals.