Pretrial — name suppression. Three defendants faced charges arising from alleged sexual assaults. The third defendant had previously been granted interim name suppression in order to prevent identification of the first defendant. Since then the Court had refused to extend name suppression for the first two defendants. Therefore there was no reason to extend the third defendant's name suppression, especially given that there was no evidence to suggest that publication of his name would cause the defendant undue or extreme hardship. However the defendant's name suppression did continue on an interim basis, to allow the first two defendants time to appeal the refusal to grant them name suppression. NOTE: this judgment was confirmed on appeal to the High Court in W v R [2019] NZHC 1350. Judgment Date: 3 April 2019.