Midwood v Paremoremo Medium Security Prison Superintendent - [1991] 1 NZLR 442

Administrative law — Judicial review — Prisoner's release on parole directed by District Prisons Board — Misconduct by prisoner shortly before release date — Revocation of parole decision — Whether proper procedure followed by Board — Whether meeting necessary — Whether jurisdiction to hear and determine appeal from High Court decision declining habeas corpus application — Whether habeas corpus application properly characterised as a civil rather than criminal matter — Judicature Act 1908, s 66 - Criminal Justice Act 1985, ss 95, 97 and 133.