R v Haig - [1996] 1 NZLR 184

Criminal law — Trial — Stay of proceedings — Whether Crown failure to call certain witnesses at preliminary hearing amounts to abuse of process — Whether Crown should call all its witnesses at depositions hearings — Crimes Act 1961, ss 347 and 368(1) — New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990, ss 24(d), 25(a) and (f).

Criminal law — Trial — Delay — Stay of proceedings — Twelve months delay between arrest and trial — Whether undue delay in circumstances — New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990, s 25(b).