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1. [2023] NZEnvC 279 Trustees of Spruce Grove Trust v Queenstown Lakes District Council [pdf, 419 KB]

   ...TRUST & THE BOUNDARY TRUST v QLDC – STAGE 2, TOPIC 31, SUBTOPIC 4 GROUP 3 – MILLBROOK – DECISION IN THE ENVIRONMENT COURT AT CHRISTCHURCH I TE KŌTI TAIAO O AOTEAROA KI ŌTAUTAHI Decision No. [2023] NZEnvC 279 IN THE MATTER of the Resource Management Act 1991 AND of appeals under clause 14 of the First Schedule of the Act against decisions of the Queenstown Lakes District Council on Stage 2 of the Proposed Queenstown Lakes District Plan BETWEEN TRUSTEES OF SPRUCE G...

2. [2023] NZEnvC 140 Crown Investment Trust v Queenstown Lakes District Council [pdf, 17 MB]

   CROWN INVESTMENTS TRUST v QLDC – TOPIC 31 CONSENT ORDER IN THE ENVIRONMENT COURT AT CHRISTCHURCH I TE KŌTI TAIAO O AOTEAROA KI ŌTAUTAHI Decision No. [2023] NZEnvC 140 IN THE MATTER of the Resource Management Act 1991 AND an appeal under clause 14 of the First Schedule of the Act BETWEEN CROWN INVESTMENT TRUST (ENV-2019-CHC-66) Appellant AND QUEENSTOWN LAKES DISTRICT COUNCIL Respondent Environment Judge J J M Hassan – sitting alone under s279 of the Act In Cham...

3. Feaver v Accident Compensation Corporation (Leave to appeal to High Court) [2024] NZACC 51 [pdf, 230 KB]

   ...construed or interpreted and applied to the facts is a question of law … . [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 … . [29] In Gilmore,3 Dunningham J stated: [55] I accept that, for the purposes of leave,...

4. 2023-09-12-Evidence-of-Karen-Prouse-for-Prouse-Trust.pdf [pdf, 2.7 MB]

   ...Chambers Level 6, Huddart Parker Building 1 Post Office Square PO Box 117 Wellington 6011 T: 04 472 9026 ian.gordon@stoutstreet.co.nz BEFORE THE ENVIRONMENT COURT AT WELLINGTON IN THE MATTER of a direct referral of applications for resource consents and notices of requirement under sections 87G and 198E of the Resource Management Act 1991 for the 02NL project By the New Zealand Transport Agency Waka Kotahi STATEMENT OF EVIDENCE OF KAREN PROUSE...

5. LCRO 17/2025 ZG v MY (16 April 2025) [pdf, 178 KB]

   ...complaints are initially and usually finally adjudicated, do not have this power. [53] In my view, s 205 of the Act is intended to arm this Office with the summary ability to bar applications for review that lack merit, in order to focus what are limited resources on cases where there is an arguable case for the review application proceeding further. A vexatious complaint [54] A vexatious complaint can be described as one that lacks any grounds and is primarily intended to harass, an...

6. [2013] NZEmpC 234 Gazeley v Oceania Group (NZ) Ltd [pdf, 320 KB]

   ...needed in this judgment it will be supplied in the following paragraphs under separate headings. The inquiry and disciplinary meetings [20] Disciplinary meetings between Mrs Gazeley and her lawyer on the one hand, and Mr Hipkins and a Human Resource Manager, Ms Kate Hoyle, on the other, were conducted on 11 August 2011 and 13 September 2011. Ms Sharma, who was representing Mrs Gazeley, prepared lengthy letters for those meetings, which were clearly to provide the basis of Mrs G...

7. Smith v Waitakere City Council [pdf, 220 KB]

   ...completion of the construction of the dwellinghouse. MATERIAL FACTS [8] Distilling the situation as best I can, the relevant material facts are these:- [9] In or about May 1998, Mr Quinn applied to the Council for a building consent and resource consent to move an older dwelling which was on a site at 200 Old Titirangi Road, Titirangi and relocate and re-establish the dwelling on a property at 57A West Coast Road, Glen Eden, in accordance with the plans and specificat...

8. Moko Sayviah RANGITOHERIRI (CSU-2015-ROT-000302) [pdf, 2 MB]

   ...CYFS had not told the police of the concerns that were expressed to them and some of these concerns did not appear to have been investigated. It was not hard for the Court to conclude that with the lack of support, whanau difficulties and financial resources the mother, Dally-Paki, really had an inability to provide a safe and stable environment for her children. That is a clear red flag fl.-om the time that they were at Starship before they were placed with the caregivers and moved t...

9. Solomon v Johnson - Te Mata E3 Block (2017) 139 Waikato Maniapoto MB 240 (139 WMN 240) [pdf, 508 KB]

   ...This quote did not include costs for digging of trenches for the cables. The applicants also reached a mutual agreement with the neighbour for the supply of water; 139 Waikato Maniapoto MB 248 e) The applicants were required to obtain resource consent as well as a building consent from the Thames-Coromandel District Council. The resource consent was needed because of the coastal location of the block. Around $5,000.00 was charged by the Council for development fees, and...

10. [2018] NZEnvC 083 Willowridge Developments Ltd v Queenstown Lakes District Council [pdf, 11 MB]

    ...which are irrelevant to these proceeding. The relevant objectives and pOlicies relate to: • integrated resource management32; • economic wellbeing33; and • recognition maintenance and enhancement of the values of Otago's natural resources34 The implementing policie.s include one35 to manage ecosystems and indigenous biological diversity by (inter alia) maintaining and enhancing ecosystem health and indigenous biological diversity36 and another to control the adverse e...