CO v IBU [2011] NZIACDT 11 (4 April 2011) [pdf, 70 KB]
...statute creating a scheme where the Tribunal’s work is subject to secrecy. For a professional disciplinary body in contemporary New Zealand to operate without its decisions being available would be a truly exceptional situation. [9] The Court of Appeal in R v Liddell [1995] 1 NZLR 538, 546 per Cooke P said in relation to the question of name suppression: “The starting point must always be the importance in a democracy of freedom of speech, open judicial proceedings and the right of...