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1. LCRO Annual Report 2012 [pdf, 965 KB]

   ...sufficient to deal with the current trends may be doubtful. Managing the increasing workload continues to be the main challenge of this office, and there is an increasing urgency to address this issue. However, this requires urgent attention to not only resources but also to improvements that could be made to the current procedures. Tensions exist between the statutory procedures applying to reviews and the statutory requirement of expeditiousness. There is no discrimination in the wa...

2. Hearing Calendar (11 March 2019) [pdf, 467 KB]

   ...15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Page | 3 – Updated 11 Mar 2019 1 Wai 2358 - The National Fresh Water and Geothermal Resources – Panel: Chief Judge Isaac; Crosby, R; Anderson, R; Phillipson, G; & Temara, P / Staff: Cameron, J; Hauraki, A; Moko-Mead, H; & Burke, C 2 Wai 2200 – Porirua Ki Manawatū – Panel Members: Judge Fox, Phillipson, G; Kidd, D;...

3. Naera v Fenwick - Whakapoungakau 24 (2019) 205 Waiāriki MB 96 (205 WAR 96) [pdf, 330 KB]

   ...should be filed with the Registrar on or before 4pm Thursday 2 February 2017. (Emphasis added) [8] It is also said that, contrary to the above injunction, some steps may have been taken since the issue of that decision toward progressing the resource consent application necessary for the project to commence. That said, Mr Koning submitted that the likely steps were simply activities by the consent authority or responses thereto by way of reply. From that submission, I unders...

4. McArthur Ridge – EiC – A Davoren – Hydrology; Schedule 10A.4 (5 Feb 2021) [pdf, 1.9 MB]

   ...Telephone: 021 997 343 Email: norman.elder@awslegal.co.nz Email: kgr@kelvinreid.co.nz IN THE ENVIRONMENT COURT OF NEW ZEALAND CHRISTCHURCH REGISTRY I TE KŌTI TAIAO O AOTEAROA ŌTAUTAHI ROHE ENV-2020-CHC-127 UNDER the Resource Management Act 1991 IN THE MATTER of the Water Permits Plan Change – Plan Change 7, being part of a proposal of national significance directed by the Minister for the Environment to be referred to the Environment Court u...

5. National Standards Committee 1 v Palmer [2022] NZLCDT 42 (10 November 2022) [pdf, 128 KB]

   ...that she shared her concern with colleagues – at one point asking advice as to how to handle the invitations. [57] Although she did not wish to complain formally, she provided the email chain (of three months’ duration by then) to the human resources officer who conducted her exit interview. In turn, that person was also sufficiently concerned about the email chain to pass it to the human resources manager. [58] In evidence, Ms X confirmed that it had “definitely not” b...

6. LR v Accident Compensation Corporation (Leave to appeal to the High Court) [2023] NZACC 109 [pdf, 286 KB]

   ...339, 353-354 (CA); Edwards v Bairstow [1995] sic [1955] 3 All ER 48,57. [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: eg Jackson and Kenyon above. Submissions of the parties [19] Ms Carrigan submits: (g) Th...

7. ENV-2020-CHC-099 EDS v NZ Aluminium Smelters Limited [pdf, 53 KB]

   IN THE ENVIRONMENT COURT OF NEW ZEALAND CHRISTCHURCH REGISTRY I TE KOTI MATUA O AOTEAROA OTAUTAHIROHE Date of Minute: IN THE MATTER OF THE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ACT AND OF AN APPLICATION FOR DECLARATIONS UNDER s310 OF THE ACT ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE SOCIETY INCORPORATED Applicant V NEW ZEALAND ALUMINIUM SMELTERS LIMITED Respondent 9 October 2020 ENV-2020-CHC-099 MINUTE OF ALTERNATE ENVIRONMENT JUDGE NEWHOOK [1] I have today (9 October) conducted a follow-up settle...

8. 2021-02-26 Trustpower - notice - XXN [pdf, 424 KB]

   ...PO Box 47516, Ponsonby 1144 +64 9 357 0600 IN THE ENVIRONMENT COURT OF NEW ZEALAND CHRISTCHURCH REGISTRY I TE KŌTI TAIAO O AOTEAROA ŌTAUTAHI ROHE ENV-202-CHC-127 IN THE MATTER of the Resource Management Act 1991 (the ‘Act’) AND IN THE MATTER of a notice of motion under s149T(2) to decide proposed Plan Change 7 to the Regional Plan: Water for Otago (referred to the Environment Court by the Minister for t...

9. 2021-02-05 – MfE – notice – cross-examination (5 Feb 2021) [pdf, 161 KB]

   BEFORE THE ENVIRONMENT COURT AT CHRISTCHURCH I TE KOTIMATUA O AOTEAROA ŌTAUTAHI ROHE ENV-2020-CHC-000127 UNDER THE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ACT 1991 AND IN THE MATTER OF A Notice of Motion under section 149T(2) to decide proposed Plan Change 7 to the Regional Plan: Water for Otago BETWEEN OTAGO REGIONAL COUNCIL Applicant AND MINISTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT Section 274 Party NOTICE OF CROSS EXAMINATION FOR THE MINISTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT 5 Febr...

10. 2021-12-15 Friends of Lake Hayes - Memo - re witnesses at March 2022 hearing [pdf, 91 KB]

    BEFORE THE ENVIRONMENT COURT AT CHRISTCHURCH I MUA I TE KŌTI TAIAO O AOTEAROA KI ŌTAUTAHI IN THE MATTER of the Resource Management Act 1991 AND of a notice of motion under section 149T(2) to decide proposed Plan Change 8: Water for Otago (referred to the Environment Court by the Minister for the Environment under section 142(2)(b) of the Act) OTAGO REGIONAL COUNCIL (ENV-2020-CHC-128) Applicant Memorandum of Friends of Lake Hayes Society Inc...