[2010] NZEmpC 9 Smith v Evolution E-Business Ltd [pdf, 36 KB]
...of an inequity” (Gartside v Outram3). This defence has been recognised in New Zealand: European Pacific Banking Corporation v Fourth Estate Publications4 and in European Pacific Banking Corporation v Television New Zealand Ltd 5 the Court of Appeal stated6: What has been called ever since Gartside v Outram the defence of iniquity is an instance, and probably the prime instance, of the principle that the law 2 [1995] 1 ERNZ 1 at...