The Covid Response
04 Jun 2020 | NewsThe Right Honourable Dame Helen Winkelmann, Chief Justice of New Zealand, assured the public that courts were an essential service, and that New Zealand courts would continue to uphold the rule of law and to ensure that fair trial rights, the right to natural justice and rights under the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act were upheld. 1 Priority was given to proceedings that affected the liberty of the individual or their personal safety and wellbeing, or that resolution was time-critical wh...