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1. Joint Venture QA October [pdf, 327 KB]

   ...need more easily, and will increase our ability to hold perpetrators to account. We need a system that works for victims, perpetrators and children affected by violence. 2. What is a joint venture? A joint venture will join up people and resources from across the public service to work on common issues. It creates collective responsibility for achieving an agreed set of outcomes, reflecting a different mindset and approach that can provide the sustained, cross-agency leadershi...

2. [2021] NZEnvC 201 Guardians of the Bay Incorporated v Wellington International Airport Limited [pdf, 504 KB]

   IN THE ENVIRONMENT COURT AT WELLINGTON I TE KOTI TAIAO O AOTEAROA KI TE WHANGANUI-A-TARA IN THE NIATTER OF BETWEEN AND Decision No. [2021] NZEnvC 201 appeals under s 174 of the Resource Management Act 1991 GUARDIANS OF THE BAY INC (ENV-2021-WLG-000035 & 37) INTERNATIONAL CLINIATE-SAFE TRAVEL INSTITUTE (ENV-2021-WLG-0000036) Appellants WELLINGTON INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT LIMITED Respondent Court: Environment Judge B P Dwyer sitting alone under s 279 of the Act...

3. 2024-07-18-Updated-Notice-of-Hearing-MEP-Coastal.pdf [pdf, 262 KB]

   ...that; or • For all other applications, the first half-day is free. After the first half-day there will be a $350 fee for each half-day or part half-day after that. EC4180_NoticeOfHearing The fees must be pre-paid in accordance with the Resource Management (Forms, Fees and Procedure) Regulations 2003. The time allocated by the Court provides an indication of your potential liability for Court hearing fees in this case. 2 PROCEDURES At the start of the hearing, the Court...

4. Summary-Political-lobbying-meeting-Industry-and-professional-associations-meeting-17-August-2023-Final-v2.pdf [pdf, 187 KB]

   ...costs and burdens on industry groups.” “We are not flush with cash, so imposing another layer of heavy-handed regulation will probably only stifle debate.” “Be careful not to drive discussions underground.” Fair access Larger, better resourced organisations get better access 25. While attendees generally agreed that New Zealanders have good access to politicians, they questioned whether this was equal or fair access. 26. In particular, there were many comments that ve...

5. 2023-09-26-Evidence-of-John-McArthur-Flooding.PDF [PDF, 248 KB]

   IN THE ENVIRONMENT COURT WELLINGTON REGISTRY I TE KŌTI TAIAO O AOTEAROA TE WHANGANUI-A-TARA ROHE ENV-2023-WLG-000005 UNDER the Resource Management Act 1991 IN THE MATTER the direct referral of applications for resource consents and notices of requirement under sections 87G and 198E of the Act for the Ōtaki to North of Levin Project BY WAKA KOTAHI NEW ZEALAND TRANSPORT AGENCY Applicant STATEMENT OF EVIDENCE OF JOHN McARTHUR ON BEHALF OF HOROW...

6. 2023-10-10-Rebuttal-Evidence-of-N-Goldwater-Terrestrial-Ecology.pdf [pdf, 303 KB]

   ...areas. This is what Ms Geary refers to when she discusses the “whole of landscape approach”1. 11. Once established, the landscape and natural character plantings will also provide ecological benefits such as increased fauna habitat and food resources, connectivity, and buffering, although I emphasise that I have not relied on these benefits for the purposes of addressing residual effects. In this regard, landscape and natural character planting should not be held to the sam...

7. [2024] NZEnvC 066 Federated Farmers of New Zealand v Waikato District Council [pdf, 362 KB]

   ...Waikato District Council - Topic 20: Miscellaneous IN THE ENVIRONMENT COURT AT AUCKLAND I TE KŌTI TAIAO O AOTEAROA KI TĀMAKI MAKAURAU Decision [2024] NZEnvC 066 IN THE MATTER OF an appeal under clause 14 of the First Schedule of the Resource Management Act 1991 BETWEEN FEDERATED FARMERS OF NEW ZEALAND (ENV-2022-AKL-000051) Appellant AND WAIKATO DISTRICT COUNCIL Respondent Court: Alternate Environment Judge L J Newhook sitting alone under s 279 of the...

8. LCRO Annual report 2022-23 [pdf, 338 KB]

   ...dissatisfied with the first-tier investigation by the Standards Committee. Whilst significant progress has been made in reducing the substantial backlog of cases that had built up over a number of years, progress still needs to be made in ensuring that resources are sufficient to expedite the turnaround of cases. The Review Officers have observed in the current reporting period, that a discernible trend (identified in previous annual reports) for an ever-expanding volume of...

9. Hill v Accident Compensation Corporation (Leave to appeal to the High Court) [2024] NZACC 077 [pdf, 277 KB]

   ...5 O’Neill v Accident Compensation Corporation [2008] NZACC 250. 7 [25] Even if the qualifying criteria are made out, the Court has an extensive discretion in the grant or refusal of leave so as to ensure proper use of scarce judicial resources. Leave is not to be granted as a matter of course. One factor in the grant of leave is the wider importance of any contended point of law … . [35] The Courts have been careful to ensure that scarce judicial resources are not tied...

10. [2018] NZEnvC 244 Director-General of Conservation v Thames-Coromandel District Council [pdf, 1.2 MB]

    ...the full range of the district's indigenous ecosystems and biodiversity in a healthy, functional state. Whilst the policy is not expressed in overly directive terms, the viability, integrity and sustainability of "non­ significant" resources should be retained including by addressing increased risk from 18 plant pests. The Pa pathogen is not a plant but it is irrefutably a pest to plants (kauri) and absent an express plan definition we find that Pa is a "plant...