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Moetu Kaitai v The King - SC 59/2023

Summary

Criminal Appeal

Result

A The application for leave to appeal is granted in part (Kaitai v R [2023] NZCA 184). The approved question is whether the Court of Appeal was correct to dismiss the appeal against conviction, so far as it was based on defences of accident, involuntariness and lack of intent.
B The application for leave to appeal is otherwise dismissed.
22 December 2023

Date of Hearing

11 July 2024

Judges

Winkelmann CJ, Glazebrook, Ellen France, Williams and Miller JJ

Related Documents

High Court decision — R v KAITAI [2022] NZHC 2438 [23 September 2022

Court of Appeal decision — KAITAI v R [2023] NZCA 184 [22 May 2023]

Leave judgment - leave granted — MOETU KAITAI v R [2023] NZSC 169 [22 December 2023 (PDF 179 KB)