Anderson v Official Assignee - [1996] 2 NZLR 167

Bankruptcy and insolvency — Discharge — Official Assignee objecting to discharge — Official Assignee failing to call public examination as soon as practicable three years after adjudication — Whether bankrupt entitled to judicial review of decision not to hold examination — Insolvency Act 1967, s 109.

Constitutional law — New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 — Natural justice — Official Assignee failing to hold public examination of bankrupt three years after adjudication in bankruptcy — Whether breach of right to observance of natural justice by public authority with power to make determination as to rights — New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990, s 27 — Insolvency Act 1967, ss 108 and 109.