Re Northrop Instruments & Systems Ltd - [1992] 2 NZLR 361

Company law — Investigation of affairs — Liquidator — Liquidator seeking to examine former officers and seeking production of records — Application for order preventing examination and production — Criteria to determine whether examination and production should be prevented — Balance between facilitating information for liquidator and oppression by unfair advantage — Reconstitution of knowledge test — Public interest to facilitate inquiry into company collapse — Companies Act 1955, s 262A.