Foley v Foley - [1986] 2 NZLR 400

Practice and procedure — Jurisdiction of District Court — Appeals to High Court — At a mediation conference District Court made an order by consent, under s 38 of the Matrimonial Property Act, appointing a person to inquire into factual issues between parties to a matrimonial property dispute — Whether District Court had jurisdiction to make an order under s 38 at a mediation conference — Whether District Court had jurisdiction to vary an order it had made under s 38 — Whether there was a right of appeal against the District Court's interim order — Matrimonial Property Act 1976, ss 38 and 39(1) — Family Proceedings Act 1980, ss 13 and 174(1) — District Courts Act 1947, s 71A.