abstract:A Crown entity (from the Commonwealth term Crown) is an organisation that forms part of New Zealand's state sector established under the Crown Entities Act 2004,Crown Entities Act 2004 a unique umbrella governance and accountability statute. The Crown Entities Act is based on the corporate model where the governance of the organisation is split from the management of the organisation.
Spellacy sided with the tort-lawyer argument that Mundet disappeared as a separate corporate entity after the buyout, making Crown liable for all Mundet's misdeeds.