Aitu v R - [2025] 3 NZLR 351

Sentencing — Firearms prohibition order — Whether imposition of firearms prohibition order limited right to presumption of innocence or right against double jeopardy — Whether demonstrable justification needed for limitation of offender’s rights before imposing firearms prohibition order — New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 ss 4, 5, 6, 25 and 26.

Sentence — Firearms prohibition order — Whether imposition of firearms prohibition order limited right against double jeopardy — New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 s 26.

Sentence — Firearms prohibition order — Whether one-stage or two-stage test for imposition of firearms prohibition order — Whether court has discretion not to impose firearms prohibition order where s 39A threshold met — Arms Act 1983 s 39A.