For the first nine days of the coronavirus lockdown the Government was telling people to stay home, and made it look like a legal requirement but it wasn’t, three judges have been told.
The New Zealand Law Society has supported the first part of a High Court challenge Wellington lawyer Andrew Borrowdale has brought about the legal basis for parts of the lockdown.
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