R v Mitchell - [1988] 2 NZLR 208

Criminal law — Evidence — Admissibility of intercepted communications — With the consent of the victim the police obtained tape recordings of conversations between him and the accused — No interception warrant was sought or obtained — Observations as to whether those conversations were private communications — Misuse of Drugs Amendment Act 1978, s 10 - Crimes Act 1961, s 216A.

Criminal law — Offences — Robbery — Accused made threats some two to three weeks before the thefts — Whether the thefts were accompanied by threats of violence — Whether the threats must be shown to be operating on the mind of the victim at the time of the thefts — Whether evidence of the effect of the threats on the mind of the victim is admissible to prove that the threats induced the victim to part with his property — Crimes Act 1961, s 234.