High Court of New Zealand, Wellington Registry, “Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses (Australasia) Ltd v Royal Commission of Inquiry into Historical Abuse in State Care and in the Care of Faith-based Institutions [2026] NZHC 1295”
“I declare that the whole of the Commission's "Jehovah's Witnesses" case study was unlawful as it exceeded the inquiry's terms of reference.”
Para [205]. The court dismissed the organisation's Bill of Rights and natural-justice grounds but held the 57-page Whanaketia case study (2024) went beyond 'abuse in care', the Commission having identified only one instance of abuse in the care of an elder in the inquiry period. The declaration marks the illegality but does not remove the report from the parliamentary record.
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Nota de procedência e verificação for High Court of New Zealand, Wellington Registry, Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses (Australasia) Ltd v Royal Commission of Inquiry into Historical Abuse in State Care and in the Care of Faith-based Institutions [2026] NZHC 1295
Nota de confiança. Judgment PDF opened and quoted verbatim.
Notes. Consequence for this project: do not rely on the NZ case study's findings; the organisation's own documents produced to that inquiry remain authentic primary material.
Consultado em. 19 de setembro de 2026 · Identificador da fonte. src-nzhc-2026-0515-ccjw-v-royal-commission