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[2020] NZSC 152
High Court
Dew & Ors v Discovery NZ Ltd (dated 23 November 2023) (also below Media Release dated 8 March 2024
Case information | Dew & Ors v Discovery NZ Ltd (dated 23 November 2023) (also below Media Release dated 8 March 2024 [2023] NZCA 589
Court of Appeal
Decision of Public Interest
The appeals are dismissed. The appellants seek to prevent the broadcast of a programme alleging serious sexual abuse by Cardinal John Dew and others. The abuse is said to have occurred over a 12-day period in 1997 at St Joseph's Orphanage in Upper Hutt.…
R v Smith
Case information | R v Smith [2024] NZHC 1289
High Court
Decision of Public Interest
Sentencing of Motu Smith for murder and other charges; Smith found guilty at trial; Smith committed series of offending including impeding breathing, aggravated robbery, robbery, two charges of unlawfully taking a motor vehicle, providing false details to…
R v Kiro
Case information | R v Kiro [2024] NZHC 853
High Court
Decision of Public Interest
Sentence for manslaughter, burglary and two counts of aggravated assault. Offender entered home through back window late at night. He was discovered in the victim's granddaughter's bedroom by her other granddaughter. The occupants of the house struggled w…
Maia Rongonui v The Queen
Case information | Maia Rongonui v The Queen SC 66/2009
Supreme Court
Criminal – Evidence Act 2006 – Mr Rongonui was convicted of one count of sexual violation by unlawful connection and one of assault with intent to commit rape – whether the Court of Appeal erred in holding that the complainant’s evidence that she had told…
Tony Gordon Best v The Queen
Case information | Tony Gordon Best v The Queen SC 57/2015
Supreme Court
Criminal Appeal – Evidence Act 2006, s 44 – Whether the Court of Appeal erred in categorising the evidence excluded in the District Court as sexual experience evidence pursuant to s 44 – Whether the Court of Appeal erred in ruling that the evidence was in…
LM v The Queen
Case information | LM v The Queen SC 143/2013
Supreme Court
Criminal Appeal – Crimes Act 1961, ss 132 and 144A – Whether the offences in s 132 of the Crimes Act 1961 require physical contact with a child and a desire for sexual gratification – Whether New Zealand has the power to legislate against conduct beyond i…
Peter David Buddle v The Queen
Case information | Peter David Buddle v The Queen SC 43/2009
Supreme Court
Criminal – Appeal against conviction – Crimes Act 1961 – Sexual offending – Criminal procedure – Exercise of s 374 discretion to discharge jury without their giving of a verdict – Whether trial Judge had authority to discharge jury at first trial on “a hu…