Wellington lawyer Andrew Borrowdale’s appeal is being heard at the Court of Appeal starting on Tuesday.
They included a challenge to the way “essential services” were defined, the legality of an order stopping people gathering except with social distancing, requiring people to stay at home isolated or quarantined, and a later restatement that refined those restrictions.
Borrowdale appealed against those parts of his case being dismissed. The Court of Appeal hearing, which began on Tuesday, was expected to last two days.
Borrowdale’s lawyer, Jim Farmer, QC, told the court the Director-General issued orders not fit to deal with a national lockdown, and he didn’t have the power to make orders of that breadth and scope.