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New Zealand Case Law

Variation of bail conditions
  • 17 Jul 2019

    KIM v THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL [2019] NZHC 1670

    Citation
    [2019] NZHC 1670
    Court
    High Court

    The Court held that the Court of Appeal's quashing of the surrender order and the unprecedented length of detention constituted a material change of circumstances that reduced the immediacy of surrender and rendered continued electronic monitoring and a 24 hour curfew unnecessarily oppressive; accordingly the Court varied bail conditions to remove electronic monitoring and the 24 hour curfew and imposed less restrictive but supervisory conditions including residence, night-away notice, weekly reporting and travel restrictions, with bail to continue pending final determination and any further…