[2023] NZEnvC 111 Schmuck v Northland Regional Council [pdf, 12 MB]
...two Hearing Commissioners in the first matter appealed, that they found the complexities raised by parties and the sheer volume of materials, equally daunting. We have sympathy for them. [11] Many substantial statements of evidence have been filed, and clearly that was the pattern in the two proceedings before Hearing Commissioners. [12] It has not been possible to prioritise resolution of these appeals in the circumstances of such egregious abuse of resource management processe...