Williams v Crimes Compensation Tribunal - [1968] NZLR 711

Administrative law — Jurisdiction of administrative bodies — Crimes Compensation Tribunal — Offender ordered to refund part of compensation awarded by Tribunal — Appeal — Whether offender entitled to be heard on quantum of compensation awarded the victim as well as proportion he may be ordered to refund — Tribunal's award to indicate in plain terms that it has had regard to the matters prescribed in the Act — Principles of natural justice — Criminal Injuries Compensation Act 1963, ss. 11, 12, 17, 18, 19, 23; Summary Proceedings Act 1957, ss. 115, 131.