New Zealand Acts

TRANS-TASMAN PROCEEDINGS ACT 2010 - SECT 28

28 No restraint of proceedings

1 A New Zealand court must not restrain a person from commencing a civil proceeding in an Australian court on the grounds that the Australian court is not the appropriate forum for the proceeding.

2 Also, a New Zealand court must not restrain a party to a civil proceeding before an Australian court from taking a step in that proceeding on the grounds that the Australian court is not the appropriate forum for the proceeding.

Note: Service and Execution of Process Act 1992 s 21 (Aust)