The Weekly Law Reports
[1998] 2 WLR 427
[PRIVY COUNCIL]
DE MORGAN
and Another Petitioners and
DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF SOCIAL WELFARE
Respondent
SEARS
Petitioner and
ATTORNEY-GENERAL OF NEW ZEALAND
Respondent
[petitions for special leave to appeal]
1997 July 9,
10;
Oct. 7
Oct. 7
Lord Browne-Wilkinson, Lord Jauncey of Tullichettle, Lord Slynn of Hadley, Lord Lloyd of Berwick and Lord Steyn
Privy Council
— Jurisdiction
— Special leave to appeal
— Statutes providing for decisions of Court of Appeal of New Zealand on matters originating in inferior courts or in Employment Court to be “final”
— Whether right of appeal to Privy Council abrogated
— Whether excluding jurisdiction of Privy Council to grant special leave to appeal
—
Judicature Act 1908 (No. 89 of 1908, as amended), s. 67
—
Employment Contracts Act 1991 (No. 22 of 1991), s. 135