Why are there footnotes messing up the text of the case?

We convert documents from PDF to html to allow fulltext searching. Unfortunately the process we use does not recognise footnotes - thus they appear in the same place on the html page as it does on the PDF pages. When NZLII was much smaller we redid footnotes to make the appearance asthetically more pleasing, but with 3000+ documents being added each month there is no way we can do this.

Choosing to download a PDF will eliminate the display issue.

-- Main.JudiEathorneGould - 11 May 2025