Description
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Chair
Simon Mount KC, Bankside Chambers
EVIDENTIARY CHALLENGES AND PROCEEDINGS: Evidence Issues in Judicial Review Proceedings
- Admissibility of evidence and the relevance requirement
- How evidence may be given in judicial review proceedings
- Resolving factual disputes and the need for leave to cross-examine witnesses
- The evidence of expert witnesses
- Discovery of documents and interrogatories
- Exclusion of evidence: privileges, immunities and confidentiality
Presented by Grant Illingworth KC, Barrister
Official Information Act and Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act: Judicial Review
- Optimising use of official information requests in judicial review cases
- Advising agencies on information requests
- The official information request and discovery interface
- Privacy Act request
Presented by Megan Crocket, Special Counsel, Tompkins Wake
Learning Objectives:
- Navigate better evidence issues in Judicial Review, including the scope for expert evidence
- Understand the use of the OIA/LGOIMA for Judicial Review
Presenters
Megan Crocket, Special Counsel, Tompkins Wake
Megan specializes in the local government sector, with expertise in local government law and public law. She provides advice on core local government issues, including governance and decision-making, and judicial review risk. Megan represents local government clients in a range of Courts and Tribunals, demonstrating experience across a wide spectrum of local government topics. In addition to her local government clients, she has successfully represented statutory bodies, NGOs, and companies.
Simon Mount KC, Bankside Chambers
Simon Mount KC practises in Auckland and Wellington. He specialises in public law, criminal and regulatory law including health and safety, professional discipline and public inquiries. Simon began his career as a Judges Clerk in 1995, received a Fulbright Scholarship in 1997, and an LLM degree from Columbia Law School in New York in 1999. He was a Crown Prosecutor for 10 years before joining the independent bar and working primarily in the fields of public law, inquiries, regulatory law, criminal law and professional discipline. He is admitted to practise in the Cook Islands and is the Attorney-General for the Pitcairn Islands. He is an updating editor of Cross on Evidence, and a frequent author and presenter in the areas of public law, inquiries, evidence, criminal and medical law.
Grant Illingworth KC, Barrister
Grant Illingworth is a King’s Counsel based in Auckland, New Zealand. He is a litigation specialist, having conducted his own practice as an advocate since 1975. His particular areas of specialist expertise are:; Public law, including constitutional law, administrative law, extradition law, judicial review and rights of appeal; Tribunal proceedings, including disciplinary proceedings for the medical, legal and accountancy professions; Civil litigation, including negligence claims, contract disputes and commercial litigation; The law relating to trusts, equitable interests and relationship property; Dispute resolution, including arbitration and mediation
