[2022] NZEnvC 215 Southland District Council v Peter Chartres [pdf, 958 KB]
...the lawfulness of the decisions made by the Council officers to commence the proceedings. Allegations of unlawfulness made by the Council [6] The August application was accompanied by a memorandum of counsel (‘counsel’s memorandum’) and affidavits of Mr Roy, planner at the Council, and Mr Davis, an ecologist, sworn on 14 August 2020, together with the earlier affidavits of these witnesses sworn in June 2020 and filed in support of the interim order made by the court. [7]...