3 Sept 2020
X (CA226/2020) v R [2020] NZCA 387
- Citation
- [2020] NZCA 387
- Court
- Court of Appeal
The High Court erred in discounting media and social media harms as not qualifying as 'hardship' when it had expressly found those harms to be severe; all identified harms must be considered cumulatively and, on the facts here — including the uniqueness of the appellant's name, the intense political and media context and the distinctive risks posed by social media and cancel culture to a young person — publication would cause extreme hardship under s 200(2)(a) CPA, and suppression should be granted; leave to appeal was therefore granted and the appeal allowed.