Court Judicial Decision: Dotcom v The United States
of America: 17 October 2014
[1] The United States
of America is seeking the extradition of Messrs Dotcom,
Batato, Ortmann and Van Der Kolk. The matter has been before
the Courts on numerous occasions, and no further recitation
of the facts is needed. It is convenient to standardise
descriptions so in this judgment the party seeking
extradition (United States of America) will be referred to
as the applicant, and the persons whose extradition is
sought will be called the respondents.
[2] This judgment
has as its background two applications made by the
respondents to the extradition court (the District Court)
requesting it to make discovery orders against various New
Zealand government agencies, Ministers and departments. The
District Court declined and the respondents are seeking
judicial review of that decision.
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