Lai v Chamberlains
| Jurisdiction | New Zealand |
| Judgment Date | 2006 |
| Neutral Citation | [2006] NZSC 70 |
| Year | 2006 |
| Date | 2006 |
| Court | Supreme Court |
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112 cases
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Siemer v The Solicitor-General
...of a court in cases of abuse of process are discussed in Hunter v Chief Constable of the West Midlands Police [1982] AC 529 (HL); and Lai v Chamberlains [2006] NZSC 70, [2007] 2 NZLR 18 Although avoiding the terms “jurisdictional” and “non-jurisdictional”, the distinction drawn by the maj......
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Kai Yip Cheung v R
...what was always there to be found. 24 It is now uncontroversial that judges do make law, or, at the very least, as Tipping J put it in Lai v Chamberlains, they decide what the law was when the facts giving rise to the litigation took place. 23 In Lai, the Supreme Court recognised that there......
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Attorney-General v Chapman Sc
...the direct liability recognised in Baigent is available in respect of judicial conduct was assumed by three judges of this Court in Lai v Chamberlains 87 and by a unanimous Court in R v Williams (where, again, trial delay was in issue in circumstances where some shared responsibility betwee......
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Jones v Kaney
...of Australia in D'Orta-Ekenaike v Victoria Legal Aid [2005] HCA 12, (2005) 223 CLR 1, para 39; by the Supreme Court of New Zealand in Lai v Chamberlains [2007] 2 NZLR 7; and by the Ontario Court of Appeal in Reynolds v Kingston (Police Services Board) [2007] ONCA 166. The immunity has been......
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Not Yet Dead: Wright v Paton Farrell and Advocates' Immunity in Scotland
...accepted the immunity: Demarco vUngaro(1979) 95 DLR (3d) 385.New Zealand formerly recognised it,b ut abolished it in Chamberlain vLai[2006] NZSC 70.The immunity continues to be recognised in Australia: D’Orta-Ekenaike.57 It is anomalous to treat di¡erentlypeople in like positions (ie advoca......
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Some Results So Far
...against whom a writ of habeas corpus has been issued requiring delivery to the court of an abducted child. Torts Chamberlains v Lai [2006] NZSC 70 - A consideration of whether barristers have immunity from suit for negligence in connection with work undertaken in court. This case presented ......