Seven Seas Publishing Proprietary Limited v Sullivan and Others - [1968] NZLR 663

Criminal law — Indecent publications — Preliminary proceedings — Search warrant — Magistrate's duty to decide whether reasonable grounds for belief exist that indecent documents are kept on premises to be searched — Magistrate adopting a lesser standard of suspicion — Search warrant invalid — Subsequent proceedings based on invalid warrant to be prohibited — Requirements of a valid warrant — Indecent Publications Act 1963, ss. 2, 21, 22, 25 (1) — Summary Proceedings Act 1957, s. 198 (2)-(7) — Summary Proceedings Regulations 1958 (S.R. 1958/38).