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Markholm Construction Co Ltd v Wellington City Council; Court: High Court of New Zealand: Full case name: Markholm Construction Co Ltd (First Plaintiff) & Mark William Stephen Markholm (Second Plaintiff)v Wellington City Council : Decided: 6 August 1984: Citation [1985] 2 NZLR 520: Transcript: High Court judgment: Court membership; Judge ...
In 1993, Shaw and fellow Barrister Michael (Mike) Bungay successfully represented the Appellant Goodwin in a Court of Appeal case known as R v Goodwin (No.2). This case is now regarded by the New Zealand Justice Department as the leading (key) case in relation to the Rights of Persons arrested (Pursuant to the New Zealand Bill of Rights). [ 30 ]
The Court of Appeal has existed as a separate court since 1862 but, until 1957, it was composed of judges of the High Court sitting periodically in panels. In 1957 the Court of Appeal was reconstituted as a permanent court separate from the High Court. It is located in Wellington.
The following is a list of governmental and public sector scandals in New Zealand.While New Zealand generally scores very well on international indices of corruption, there have been several notable high-profile scandals including cases of cover-ups relating to politics, economics, or public sector debacles, or to the private lives of individual government representatives.
The District Court of New Zealand (Māori: Te Kōti ā Rohe) (formerly the district courts before 2016) is the primary court of first instance of New Zealand. There are 59 District Court locations throughout New Zealand (as of 2017). [2] The court hears civil claims of up to $350,000 and most criminal cases. [3]
The Supreme Court Act 2003 was repealed on 1 March 2017 and superseded by the Senior Courts Act 2016. The current Supreme Court should not be confused with the High Court of New Zealand, which was known as the Supreme Court until 1980. The High Court, New Zealand’s superior court, was established in 1841 as the “Supreme Court of New Zealand ...
The mRNA evidence was subsequently ruled inadmissable, but the jury had already heard it. In 2017, Lundy took this issue to the Court of Appeal. The appeal was dismissed, as the court decided all the other evidence still proved he was guilty. [7] In 2022, the new Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) agreed to investigate his case.
In October 2007, 22-year-old Janet Moses died and a 14-year-old female relative was injured during a mākutu lifting (or exorcism) in the Wellington, New Zealand suburb of Wainuiomata. In 2009, nine members of Moses' extended family, all siblings of her mother or their spouses, were charged in relation to the event. [ 1 ]