R v Coghill - [1995] 1 NZLR 675

Evidence — Admissibility — Whether search of premises where exhibit was claimed to have been seized was carried out pursuant to a valid search warrant — Whether search warrant contained sufficient particularity as to the offence to enable the limits of the search to be understood — Summary Proceedings Act 1957, s 204.

Evidence — Admissibility — Whether there was a sufficient chain of evidence linking exhibit to property seized pursuant to the search warrant — Individual exhibits not labelled — No records kept of removal or return of exhibits — Original exhibit lost — Whether copy admissible.

Evidence — Admissibility — Evidence given at depositions — Deponent died prior to trial — Whether such evidence given at depositions admissible — Summary Proceedings Act 1957, s 184.