[2024] NZEnvC 182 Beresford v Queenstown Lakes District Council [pdf, 1.6 MB]
...unnecessary”.83 In the interests of transparency, we include a full record of the transcript of the questioning in Annexure 4. [99] According to s269 RMA, it is part of the court’s role to question witnesses, subject of course to principles of natural justice. In this case, the landscape opinions offered by the various experts, particularly as to associative dimensions of the landscape, go to the ultimate issue between the parties. That is in the sense that the determinatio...