King v Commissioner of Police [2023] NZHRRT 19 [pdf, 263 KB]
...21(h). Claustrophobia is undisputedly a disability for the purposes of the HRA. [11] What amounts to discrimination contrary to NZBORA, s 19 is not defined in the HRA but has been judicially determined. That test is that set out by the Court of Appeal in Ministry of Health v Atkinson [2012] NZCA 184, [2012] 3 NZLR 456 (Atkinson) at [55], [109] and [135]–[136]: [11.1] First, there must be differential treatment or effects as between persons or groups in analogous or comparable s...