Moevao v Department of Labour
| Jurisdiction | New Zealand |
| Year | 1980 |
| Date | 1980 |
| Court | Supreme Court |
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120 cases
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[1] Henry Liu [2] Feng Huang Appellants v [1] Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Dominica [2] DPP [3] Comptroller of Customs Respondents [ECSC]
...wrong that a court should not allow a prosecutor to proceed with what was in all other respects a regular proceeding" 33 Also in Moevao v Department of Labour34, Mr. Justice Richardson in the New Zealand Court of Appeal while reviewing the circumstances justifying the staying of a prosecuti......
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[1] Henry Liu [2] Feng Huang Appellants v [1] Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Dominica [2] DPP [3] Comptroller of Customs Respondents [ECSC]
...wrong that a court should not allow a prosecutor to proceed with what was in all other respects a regular proceeding" 33 Also in Moevao v Department of Labour34, Mr. Justice Richardson in the New Zealand Court of Appeal while reviewing the circumstances justifying the staying of a prosecuti......
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Earl Hodge Applicant v The Governor of the Territory of the Virgin Islands Respondent
...process of the Court; and in a proper case they did stay the action." 74 The Court is also guided by the dicta of Woodhouse J in Moevao v. Department of Labour15 where after citing the relevant passage from his own judgment in Reg. v. Hartley [1978] 2 N.Z.L.R. 19 he added; "… In the Connell......
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2 books & journal articles
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Inherent Jurisdiction, Judicial Power and Implied Guarantees under Chapter III of the Constitution
...168 CLR 23.52 Ibid 27-30 (Mason CJ).53 Such an approach had been adopted in the New Zealand ca se of Moevao v Department ofLabour [1980] 1 NZLR 464, 470–1, 473–6, 478–82. Mason CJ quoted from the judgment ofRichardson J in his decision in Jago v District Court of New South Wales (1989) 168 ......
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KNIGHT GLENN JEYASINGAM V PP A MATTER OF FIRST PRINCIPLES
...that the court’s processes may lend themselves to oppression and injustice. As Richardson J observed [in Moevao v Department of Labour[1980] 1 NZLR 464 at 481] the court grants a permanent stay: ‘in order to prevent the criminal processes from being used for purposes alien to the administra......