Dempster v Registrar-General of Land - [1997] 2 NZLR 609

Administrative law — Judicial review — Applications for landbroker's licence — Applications declined by Registrar-General of Land — Whether decisions should be reviewed — Uselessness of remedy — Absence of justification for remedy — Land Transfer Act 1952, s 229.

Law practitioners — Right to practise — Licensed landbroker — Whether licensed landbroker entitled to carry on the business of land conveyancing — Whether person not holding solicitor's practising certificate but holding landbroker's licence entitled to carry out land conveyancing — Land Transfer Act 1952, ss 229, 230, 231, 232, 233 and 234 — Law Practitioners Act 1982, ss 64 and 65.

Statutes — Interpretation — Conflict between statutes — Removal of practical consequence of earlier unrepealed statute by later statute — Whether earlier unrepealed statute thereby overridden — Land Transfer Act 1952, ss 229, 230, 231, 232, 233 and 234 — Law Practitioners Act 1982, ss 64 and 65.