Pora v R - [2016] 1 NZLR 277

Criminal practice and procedure — Appeal — Admission of further evidence — New evidence that defendant’s confessions false — Evidence not fresh but clearly credible — Whether new evidence credible — Risk of miscarriage of justice — Conviction quashed.

Criminal practice and procedure — Proper role of experts — Expert inappropriately concluding that confessions were unreliable as opposed to falsely made — Duty of expert to provide material on which Court can base own conclusion — Reliability matter for the Court — Evidence Act 2006, s 25.