Matika v Police - [2000] 2 NZLR 625

Legal aid — Criminal law — Reassignment — Assigned practitioner unable to appear at appeal — Assigned practitioner instructed other counsel to take over brief — No formal reassignment by Registrar — Whether non-assigned counsel may appear on preliminary matters — Whether non-assigned counsel may appear at merits hearing — Legal Services Act 1991, ss 17, 18, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81 and 82.