Waitemata City Council v Mackenzie - [1988] 2 NZLR 242

Practice and procedure — Judgments and orders — Setting aside — Jurisdiction — Counsel for plaintiff consented to order dismissing plaintiff from proceeding — Order was sealed — Plaintiff sought to set aside order on grounds that his counsel had no authority to consent and did so under a mistake — Whether Court has jurisdiction to set aside sealed consent order — Whether the order should be set aside.