Commissioner of Police v Ombudsman - [1985] 1 NZLR 578

Judicial review — Official Information Act 1982 — "Personal information" - Test to be applied when deciding whether making available information "would be likely" to prejudice the maintenance of law — Police summarily charged a person with certain offences — Before trial, police refused to supply that person with written briefs of prosecution witnesses' evidence — Refusal was investigated by Ombudsman under s 35 of the 1982 Act — Ombudsman recommended that the information be supplied to the person — Whether Court had jurisdiction to review the Ombudsman's recommendation — Whether a witness's brief of evidence was "personal information" - Whether police were entitled under the Official Information Act to withhold the briefs of evidence — Ombudsmen Act 1975, s 25 - Official Information Act 1982, ss 2(1), 5, 6, 9, 24, 27, 29 and 35.