By Appointing a Kiwi Race Relations Commissioner is on hold while an international human rights lawyer sues the Minister of Justice over the selection process.
Colin Henry, a Jamaican-born Aucklander, claims the process was unlawful.
The former commissioner, Dame Susan Devoy, left in June, after a damning Ministerial review into a sexual harassment scandal, which identified serious “toxic” dysfunctions.
Henry applied in the Auckland High Court for a judicial review of the process candidates underwent.
