Hazlett v Buttimore (No 1) - [1931] NZLR 17

Habeas Corpus — Committal to Inebriates Home — Requirements as to Time and Place of Hearing of Complaint — Whether Appellant afforded Fair Opportunity of being heard in Defence — Habeas Corpus Act, 1679 (Imperial), 31 Car II, c 2 — Habeas Corpus Act, 1816 (Imperial), 56 Geo III, c 100 — Reformatory Institutions Act, 1909, ss 7–9 — Justices of the Peace Act, 1927, s 63.