Gordon v Attorney-General - [2023] 3 NZLR 625

Practice and procedure — Declarations — Whether questions appropriate for declarations — Whether questions asked too hypothetical — Whether questions really seeking law reform — Questions relating to the operation of compulsory assessment and treatment regimes — New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990.

Health and disability — Mental Health — Compulsory Assessment and Treatment Regime — Relationship to human rights concerns — Relationship between “mental disorder” and “mental capacity” — Whether consent required informed consent — How consent to assessed in patient under 16 years old — New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990.