Manga v Attorney-General - [2000] 2 NZLR 65

Damages — Assessment — Wrongful imprisonment — Prisoner unlawfully detained after release date — Measure of damages — Impact on plaintiff — Relevance of character of plaintiff — Factors taken into account on assessment of damages.

Constitutional law — New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 — Arbitrary detention — Wrongful imprisonment of prisoner beyond release date.

Constitutional law — New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 — Remedies — Whether public law compensation available in addition to damages awarded at common law for wrongful imprisonment — Nature of public law remedy — New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990, s 22.

Practice and procedure — Declarations — Public law cases — When appropriate to seek declaration in specified terms — New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990.