A v Council of the Auckland District Law Society - [2005] 3 NZLR 552

Law practitioners — Right to practise — Power to suspend from practice in cases of physical or mental disability — Whether district law society council’s power to require medical examination includes power to require intrusive or invasive testing and to provide bodily samples — Whether requirement unlawfully delegated — Whether resolution to determine whether to infer plaintiff has physical or mental disability valid — Whether plaintiff entitled to be heard prior to resolution to determine whether to infer plaintiff has physical or mental disability made — New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990, ss 8, 9, 10, 11 and 21.

Administrative law — Judicial review — Whether requirement to submit to intrusive or invasive testing and to provide bodily samples valid — Whether resolution to determine whether to infer plaintiff has physical or mental disability valid — Whether plaintiff entitled to be heard prior to resolution to determine whether to infer plaintiff has physical or mental disability made — Law Practitioners Act 1982, s 59(1), (4) and (5).