A lawyer thinks today's Supreme Court decision on the Peter Ellis case will have legal impact cross the nation.
The court will deliver its decision at 2pm on the appeal of Ellis, who died in 2019.
The decision of the court to continue with his appeal after his death is an unprecedented posthumous argument using tikanga Māori.
Peter Ellis was convicted of child abuse at the Christchurch Civic Creche in 1992.
He spent seven years in jail but always maintained his innocence.
Ellis' former lawyer Nigel Hampton KC told Tim Dower it could be a groundbreaking ruling that allows the family of a dead person the right to continue with an appeal, to clear that person's name.
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