A Northland teacher will have to wait another month to find out whether a kidnapping charge against him has been dropped.
The teacher faces five charges of assaulting a child and one of kidnapping.
The kidnapping charge stems from a complaint that an unruly boy was detained in a resource room, known to pupils as "the jail room", until the school bus arrived to take him home. The teacher and the school have interim name suppression.
When the case was last called, on January 27, lawyer Doug Blaikie urged Judge Keith de Ridder to throw out the kidnapping charge.
Mr Blaikie argued the boy was in the lawful custody of the school, as required under the Education Act, so he could not have been unlawfully detained or kidnapped.