McGougan v DePuy International Ltd - [2018] 2 NZLR 916

Accident compensation — Personal injury — Bar against claiming for compensatory damages — Whether bar applied to overseas manufacture — Nature of “social contract” — Whether bar prohibited access to the courts — Whether bar had extra territorial application — Sentencing Act 2002, s 32.

Practice and procedure — Issue estoppel — Abuse of process — Whether complainants estopped from relitigating issue of compensatory damages in New Zealand — Whether all complainants interested in same issue as appellants in English proceedings — Whether special circumstances exception to application of issue estoppel available — Whether new and relevant material adduced — Whether abuse of process to allow complainants second chance with their claim.