Credit Services Investments Ltd v Evans - [1974] 2 NZLR 683

Hire purchase — Economic stabilisation regulations — Motorcar leased for four years with no right of purchase — Unenforceable understanding between lessee and lessor's agent that lessee could purchase — Evidence thereof admissible notwithstanding conflict with document — Liability of lessor for breach of reg 8(b) — Money paid under lease not recoverable under reg 10 — Hire Purchase and Credit Sales Stabilisation Regulations 1957 (Reprint SR 1967/192), regs 8(b), 10.

Agency — Relations between principal and third persons — Breach of Hire Purchase and Credit Sales Stabilisation Regulations 1957 by agent — Civil liability of principal.