L.W. Brown Q.C. and R.J. McGrane for first and second applicants.

D.A.R. Williams and L.L. Stevens for third applicant.

G.P. Barton and R.S. Chambers for first respondent.

C.J. McGuire for fourth respondent (Civil Aviation Division)--leave to
withdraw.

A.F. MacAlister and P.J. Davison for fifth respondent.

W.D. Baragwanath and G.M. Harrison for sixth respondent.


_Judgment_

22nd December 1981.




JUDGMENT OF COOKE, RICHARDSON and SOMERS JJ.


On 5 August 1981, for reasons then given, this Court ordered that these
proceedings be removed as a whole from the High Court to this Court for
hearing and determination. They are proceedings, brought by way of
application for judicial review, in which certain parts of the report of
the Royal Commission on the Mount Erebus aircraft disaster are attacked.
In summary the applicants claim that these parts are contrary to law, in