Chisnall v Attorney-General - [2022] 2 NZLR 484

Constitutional law — New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 — Retrospectivity — Declarations of incompatibility — Immunity from increased penalty and from second penalty — Extended supervision orders regime — Public protection orders regime — Whether regimes penal in nature — [2007] 1 NZLR 507 (CA) — Whether New Zealand Bill of Rights Act engaged — Justification — Whether extended supervision order and public protection order justifiable penalties — Retrospectivity and prospectivity of extended supervision orders — Declarations — Sentencing Act 2002 s 4.

Criminal practice and procedure — Extended supervision orders — Public protection orders — New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 — Immunity from increased penalty and from second penalty — Whether orders penal in nature — Whether extended supervision order and public protection order justifiable penalties — Retrospectivity of extended supervision order — Justification — Sentencing Act 2002 s 4.