8 Nov 2021
REREWHAKAAITU FARM LIMITED v BAY OF PLENTY REGIONAL COUNCIL [2021] NZHC 3004 [8 November 2021]
- Citation
- [2021] NZHC 3004
- Court
- High Court
The High Court held the charging document was not defective for failing to cite s 340 because s 338 creates the offence and s 340 operates to impute liability; late notice of reliance on vicarious liability did not produce a miscarriage of justice on these facts; however the trial judge breached natural justice by relying on an unpleaded 'second person check' requirement without putting that basis to defence witnesses, and because the judge's adverse finding on the lack of knowledge defence turned on that untested proposition the conviction could not stand; appeal allowed, conviction quashed,…