Shing v Ashcroft - [1987] 2 NZLR 154

Tort — Negligence — Negligent misrepresentation in pre-contract negotiations — Company by its agent contracted to sponsor bowls tournament but failed to pay prize money — Whether an action in negligence could be taken against the maker of a negligent misrepresentation of fact who was not a party to the contract — Whether s 6 of the Contractual Remedies Act 1979 precluded such an action.

Courts — Judicial precedent — Observation that the question of whether or in what circumstances the Court of Appeal should overrule one of its own decisions ought not to be dealt with except by a Court of five and after notice given.