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NZ Police v Lambert [2018] NZDC 4648

Published 15 February 2019

Harmful digital communication — name suppression — Criminal Procedure Act 2011 — extreme hardship test. The defendant appeared in Court in respect of posting a harmful digital communication and sought name suppression. The Judge noted that the defendant's name would be published unless he could demonstrate that would be extreme hardship to him, as per the Criminal Procedure Act. The defendant suffered from Asperger's syndrome. He was also seen by an experienced forensic nurse and expressed the risk of suicide as an outcome for him. For those reasons, the Judge ordered name suppression. Judgment Date: 12 March 2018. * * * Note: names have been changed to comply with legal requirements. * * *