Mahon v Air New Zealand Ltd

Subject Matter

NATURAL JUSTICE — Opportunity to meet charge — Royal Commission's investigation — Airline crash in Antarctica — Commission's investigation into cause — Finding that airline's management planned to conceal cause of crash — Whether facts consistent with finding — Whether persons likely to be adversely affected given opportunity to adduce additional material — Whether finding contrary to natural justice

[1984] AC 808; [1984] 3 WLR 884

JUDICIAL REVIEW — New zealand — Royal Commission's report — Whether open to judicial review — Royal Commission's investigation of cause of air crash — Airline's management found to have planned to conceal cause of crash — Airline ordered to pay part of costs of commission — Whether order for costs open to judicial review — Whether to be quashed — Whether commission's finding contrary to natural justice — Commissions of Inquiry Act 1908, s 11 — Judicature Amendment Act 1972, ss 3, 4 (as amended by Judicature Amendment Act 1977, ss 10, 11)

[1984] AC 808; [1984] 3 WLR 884

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