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1. 2021-11-05 ORC - MOC - re chapter 6 [pdf, 3.4 MB]

   ...Tumuaki Ahurei; (b) Federated Farmers New Zealand – Otago and North Otago provinces; (c) Te Rūnanga o Moeraki, Kāti Huirapa Rūnaka ki Puketeraki, Te Rūnanga o Ōtākou and Hokonui Rūnanga (Kāi Tahu ki Otago); (d) Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand Incorporated; and (e) Ngāi Tahu Ki Murihiku (Te Ao Marama). 7 The following two section 274 parties submitted on Chapter 6 and advised that they would abide the outcome of the mediation: (a) Otago Fis...

2. [2021] NZEnvC 133 Woolworths New Zealand Limited [pdf, 1 MB]

   ...comprising: (i) a retail floor space of 5,155 m² inclusive of a supermarket of 3,490 m² on Lot 1 with the remaining 1,665 m² as retail – food and 3 beverage; (ii) community activities of 1,570 m² GFA comprising a medical centre and childcare centre; (iii) a swimming pool, cinema and gymnasium; (iv) a cinema of 641.7 m² GFA on Lot 12. (e) a two-storey apartment building comprising 32 residential units on Lot 1. [5] The combined GFA of floorspace for the retailing i...

3. 2021-07-07 ORC - Closing Submissions [pdf, 422 KB]

   ...Court’s decision in EDS v King Salmon remains the leading authority for interpreting superior planning documents:7 [129] When dealing with a plan change application, the decision-maker must first identify those policies that are relevant, paying careful attention to the way in which they are expressed. Those expressed in more directive terms will carry greater weight than those expressed in less directive terms. Moreover, it may be that a policy is stated in such directive terms...

4. Meulenbroek v Vision Antenna Systems Ltd [2014] NZHRRT 51 [pdf, 226 KB]

   ...the scheduled day (Saturday). Should this requirement cause you to question your future with Vision then I will be disappointed as I have done everything I can to help you as you are a valued member of our team. It [is] the team as a whole I am protecting with this insistence that you work the days outlined in our current employment agreement. [Emphasis in original] [31] By email dated 13 June 2012 Mr Meulenbroek replied that he would not be able to work on 16 June 2012 as he had Chur...

5. [2024] NZEmpC 123 Wiles v University of Auckland [pdf, 536 KB]

   ...employment agreement to provide a safe working environment for her. She also says the University is in breach of various obligations included in the Collective Agreement: (a) by not acting as a “good employer” by failing to provide adequate protection and support to her, including in relation to its health and safety obligations; (b) by failing to comply with the University’s statutes, guidelines, and policies; (c) by instructing her to minimise her public comme...

6. [2020] NZEnvC 205 Todd v Queenstown Lakes District Council [pdf, 3.3 MB]

   ...('PDP') the 'Rural General' zoning for the Wakatipu Basin (of which the site is part) would be replaced by a bespoke Wakatipu Basin Rural Amenity zoning with stringent controls on subdivision and development. This is in order to protect against further loss of the Basin's landscape character and rural amenity values. The variation was underpinned by the Wakatipu Basin Land Use Planning Study (2017) ('2017 Study'). [5] Landscape character and rural...

7. [2021] NZEnvC 027 Director-General of Conservation v Taranaki Regional Council [pdf, 1.8 MB]

   ...(policy 4); (d) Implementation of a National Objectives Framework to ensure that the health and well-being of degraded water bodies and freshwater ecosystems 13 is improved, and for all others is either maintained or improved (policy 5); ( e) Protection of wetlands and their values (policy 6); (f) Avoidance of the loss of river extent and values to the extent practicable (policy 7); (g) Protection of significant values of outstanding water bodies (policy 8); (h) Protection of...

8. [2023] NZEnvC 064 New Zealand Transport Agency v Waikato Regional Council [pdf, 1.3 MB]

   ...investigations and land investigations  formation of access for geotechnical investigations  establishment of site access points and fencing (including relocation of property boundary fences)  constructing and sealing site access roads  protection and relocation of services  establishment of mitigation measures (such as erosion and sediment control measures, earth bunds and screen planting) required for the Enabling Works  vegetation protection and remo...

9. Grace – Ngarara West A25B2A (2014) 317 Aotea MB 268 (317 AOT 268) [pdf, 254 KB]

   ...to tell the stories of Tuku Rākau and its people; to re- establish connections with the Takamore urupā and surrounding land; and to retain the land for the next generation. The land is not currently inalienable and a Māori reservation would protect the land from alienation. This is relevant in the context of TTWMA; the retention of Māori land by owners, whānau and hapū is a fundamental tenet of the legislation. 4. What is the size of the proposed reservation and its relevance...

10. Waitangi Tribunal - issue 65 of Te Manutukutuku [pdf, 3.2 MB]

    ...mountains, guaranteeing Ngāti Tūwharetoa’s special relationship with them. The Tribunal found that this was not, as Native Minister John Ballance believed at the time, an English­style gift. Te Heuheu’s intention was to use Pākehā law to protect the mountains for the benefit of Māori and Pākehā forever and to ensure that his iwi never lost its special association with ngā maunga. The report states that, ‘With hindsight, we can see that the minds of Te Heuheu and Ball...