[2025] NZIACDT 51 - NO v Ellis (2 October 2025) [pdf, 257 KB]
...counsel provided an affirmation from Mr Ellis (23 July 2024). Mr Ellis stated: 1. There was no benefit to him to coach the client as to what to say in his statement. He had asked the client to narrate what he had previously told Mr Ellis (in a phone call on 23 January 2023) as to the unrest at the university which led him to discontinue his studies. Instead of using the word “narration”, he just kept it simple by asking him to create or write a story. 2. Early in his comm...