A rare sitting of three judges of the High Court is due to hear a case, starting in Wellington on Monday, that challenges the legal basis for parts of New Zealand's coronavirus lockdown. Borrowdale, a Wellington lawyer with an impressive academic record, but not a litigator, filed proceedings to front a legal challenge to some lockdown rules. Robert Kitchin/Stuff Chief High Court Judge Susan Thomas will lead the three judges to hear the case. If some lockdown rules were made without authority then prosecutions brought under those rules could not succeed, so the outcome is not just academic. The society could help the court, not one side or the other, and could not expand the issues beyond those Borrowdale raised, the High Court has said

Source: Stuff July 24, 2020 06:11 UTC