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Chief Executive of Social Development v L

High Court Wellington
  • 10 September 2018
[2018] NZHC 2528; [2019] 2 NZLR 135

Ministry of Social Development were using fake names for difficult clients whose cases go to benefits review committees. Judgment of Collins J concludes there is an “absolute prohibition on statutory decision-makers using false names and signatures in the absence of express statutory authority allowing such conduct.”


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Tony Ellis, a barrister, who has developed the law of human rights in the courts of this country like no other lawyer before him. – Russell Fairbrother MP

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