Michael Marino v The Chief Executive of the Department of Corrections - SC 35/2016

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Summary

Civil Appeal – Application for habeus corpus – Whether the Court of Appeal erred in its interpretation of ss 91(1) and 90(2) of the Parole Act 2002.[2016] NZCA 117   CA 129/2016

Result

A Leave to appeal is granted (Marino v The Chief Executive of the Department of Corrections [2016] NZCA 133).  
B The approved question is: Did the Court of Appeal err in its interpretation of ss 90 and 91 of the Parole Act 2002 or in the application of those sections to the position of the applicant?       
6 May 2016
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A Mr Marino’s appeal is allowed.  Costs are reserved.
B Mr Booth’ s appeal is dismissed.
22 September 2016

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