[2024] NZEnvC 074 GI Finlay Trustees Ltd v Western Bay of Plenty District Council [pdf, 175 KB]
...have now come to be applied not just in determining whether higher than normal costs should be awarded but in determining whether costs should be awarded at all and, if so, at what level.2 1 Goodwin v Wellington City Council [2021] NZEnvC 101 at [41]. 2 Development Finance Corporation of New Zealand Ltd v Bielby [1991] 1 NZLR 587 (HC). 5 [12] These factors now overlap with paragraph 10.7(j) of the Environment Court Practice Note which provides as follows: In considerin...