Financial Markets Authority v Vivier and Company Ltd - [2016] 3 NZLR 70

Financial markets regulation — Financial service providers — De-registration — Evidential threshold — Foreign controlled company purporting to operate in New Zealand — Absence of any material financial services provided in or from New Zealand — Whether requiring specific evidence that registration misleading consumers or damaging New Zealand’s financial markets reputation — Right to natural justice — Failure to disclose fact of complaint to provider — Failure to provide further information to provider — Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Act 2009.

Administrative law — Administrative appeals — Whether matter under appeal was one from discretion — Approach to be taken — Properly general appeal.

Administrative law — Natural justice — Failure to consult over reasons for deregistration — Breach of natural justice.