R v Lee - [2006] 3 NZLR 42

Criminal practice and procedure — Appeal — Application for leave to extend time for appealing — Conviction for manslaughter arising from assault — Question of consent to assault not put to jury — Test for granting leave — Crimes Act 1961, s 338(1) and (2).

Criminal law — Defences — Consent — Manslaughter — Causing death by assault — Pressure applied to neck during exorcism — Circumstances in which consent to assault available as defence — Crimes Act 1961, s 20(1).