Coles v Cole and Another - [1968] NZLR 513

Practice — Magistrates' Courts — Search of Court records — Proceedings under the Mental Health Act — Whether rules under Magistrates' Courts Act apply to proceedings under the Mental Health Act — Generalia specialibus non derogant — Magistrates' Courts Act 1947, ss. 2, 122, 124 — Magistrates' Courts Rules 1948 (S.R. 1948/197) rr. 4 (1), 25 (1) (3) — Mental Health Act 1911, ss. 5, 8, 138 — Mental Health Regulations (1912 Gazette 891).