12 Mar 2015
COMMISSIONER OF POLICE v DOTCOM & OR [2015] NZHC 458
- Citation
- [2015] NZHC 458
- Court
- High Court
Dotcom was permitted to access restrained government bonds up to $700,000 because he could not meet immediate legal and living expenses from unrestrained property; s28(1)(d) does not import a separate statutory reasonableness ceiling on legal fees paid from restrained funds where foreign restraining orders apply (s134), and the court's supervisory role is limited to preventing wasteful or dishonest depletion; supervised payment regime to continue.
- Restraining orders
- Access to restrained assets for legal and living expenses
- Reasonableness of legal fees
- Sham trust and beneficial ownership
- Freezing orders
- Variation of orders