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Court of Appeal Wellington
CA 189/00
8, 9 May; 12 July 2001
Richardson P, Keith, Blanchard, Tipping and McGrath JJ
CA 189/00
8, 9 May; 12 July 2001
Richardson P, Keith, Blanchard, Tipping and McGrath JJ
Criminal practice and procedure — Prisoner’s right of access to a lawyer — Whether prisoner has right to legal representation in prison disciplinary hearings — Whether regulation preventing legal representation ultra vires empowering section of Act — Penal Institutions Regulations 1999 (SR 1999/139), regs 136(4) and 144.
Constitutional law — New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 — Whether regulation protected from review as an enactment — New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990, s 4.