Fitzgerald v Commission of Inquiry into Marginal Lands Board - [1980] 2 NZLR 368

Commission of Inquiry — Judicial review — Commission established to inquire into allegations of impropriety in grant of loan by Marginal Lands Board — Applicant applied for order prohibiting Commission from proceeding with inquiry on ground that his right to a fair trial in criminal proceedings on a charge of making a false statutory declaration to the Board would be seriously prejudiced once the circumstances surrounding the loan application were made public — Whether interim order under s 8 of the Judicature Amendment Act 1972 should be made.