Dentice v Valuers Registration Board - [1992] 1 NZLR 720

Administrative law — Tribunals and boards — Disciplinary proceedings — Whether a disciplinary body had power to consider proceedings in respect of report prepared for purpose of giving evidence in arbitration — Immunity of witness giving evidence in civil proceedings — Whether disciplinary proceedings were civil proceedings — Whether professional witnesses immune from disciplinary proceedings in respect of evidence given by them — Valuers Act 1948, ss 31 and 32.

Evidence — Witness — Witness immunity — Domestic disciplinary tribunals — Whether immunity from prosecution before such tribunals in respect of evidence prepared for purposes of arbitration.

Contempt of Court — Professional disciplinary proceedings — Valuers Registration Board — Nature of professional disciplinary proceedings — Whether proceedings attempt to punish witness for evidence given at arbitration — Whether disciplinary proceedings should be quashed as constituting contempt of Court.