[2024] NZEnvC 024 Environmental Defence Society Inc v Minister for Environment [pdf, 373 KB]
...instance (that their counsel is aware of) in which a challenge to the lawfulness of an RMA national direction has been brought. That involved High Court judicial review proceedings. [28] While s310(a) confers a potentially broad power, it has been carefully and narrowly applied.19 Section 310 contains a closed list of matters. Moreover, the Environment Court does not possess inherent jurisdiction. [29] Section 310 does not list, as a matter for declaration, whether an instrument...