24 Mar 2017
POLICE v B [2017] NZHC 526
- Citation
- [2017] 3 NZLR 203
- Court
- High Court
The High Court held the trial Judge erred by failing to assess the unchallenged evidence in its totality and without proper regard to context; the totality of evidence (victim's unchallenged testimony of prolonged upset, anxiety, potential incapacity for work, supporting lay evidence of shock/depression, and threatening context and publication of intimate images) was capable of establishing "harm" as "serious emotional distress" under s4 and s22, and the discharge was quashed and remitted for retrial.