Ruka v Department of Social Welfare - [1995] 3 NZLR 635

Social security, pensions and superannuation — Offences — Benefit fraud — Battered wife syndrome — Beneficiary living in long-term relationship — Beneficiary subjected to frequent violence from partner and unable to leave as suffering from battered wife syndrome — Standard of proof in benefit fraud prosecution — Whether relationship in the nature of marriage — Whether necessary mental assent to relationship — Crimes Act 1961, s 229A — Social Security Act 1964, s 127.