Hospice New Zealand v Attorney-General - [2021] 3 NZLR 71

Statutes — Interpretation — End of Life Choice Act 2019 — Whether rights of hospices and other organisations limited by End of Life Choice Act 2019 — Relationship between mandatory obligations on health practitioners and other duties and obligations as health practitioners — Right to freedom of conscience — Whether Act excludes operation of Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights — Competence of health practitioner to provide assisted dying services — Organisations’ funding decisions must be lawful — Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights cl 5.

Human rights — New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 — Whether End Life Choice Act 2019 consistent with right to freedom of conscience — Application to hospices as corporate bodies — New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 ss 13, 29.

Practice and procedure — Declarations — Jurisdiction of Declaratory Judgments Act 1908 — Discretion to make declarations in respect of any statute in anticipation of any act or event — (CTH) Jurisdiction of Declaratory Judgments Act 1908 ss 2, 3, 9.