NZLS Predictions in an Uncertain World [pdf, 957 KB]
...many pages of description of the evidence the court found:63 … that the retail premises of the plan as now supported by Council may have some impact on trade at the existing centres but that the impact will not be sufficient to generate flow-on consequential effects. Those “findings” are interesting because they are predictions about the future and thus typical of RMA cases. The case went to the High Court. In Westfield (NZ) Ltd v Hamilton City Council64 the High Court said:...