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1. 2021-07-07 Transcript (up until 3.25pm of day 42) [pdf, 2.6 MB]

   ...the Court is considering water-users in this process and in the 15 formation of the plan change 7, it’s most necessary. In my view, it behoves the Otago Regional Council in its application of water management processes to consider not just the environmental implications but the implications on its region and people in its region, in the Otago Region. 20 Southern Lakes Holdings itself has invested significantly into the use of water resources. We have four small irrigation pro...

2. 2021-04-12 Transcript (up to end of day 15) [pdf, 1.1 MB]

   ...important, then what other methods are available to us to recognise the work being done by priorities as between abstractors, and should our interests be as between abstractors only, which is what we think priorities are about, or should it have an environmental focus, which is a particular interest in dock, Director General, Conservation. So we will be, again, 25 looking to our alternatives, if priorities don’t survive, but there’s a gap, how can the gap be bridged, how should...

3. Transcript - Hearing - PC7 - 12 April 2021 [pdf, 1.1 MB]

   ...important, then what other methods are available to us to recognise the work being done by priorities as between abstractors, and should our interests be as between abstractors only, which is what we think priorities are about, or should it have an environmental focus, which is a particular interest in dock, Director General, Conservation. So we will be, again, 25 looking to our alternatives, if priorities don’t survive, but there’s a gap, how can the gap be bridged, how should...

4. 10.4 Appendix D: Environment Court In-Court Media Coverage Guidelines 2011

   ...notes on hearing venue courtesy in Schedule 5. Method of communication Any written application or response under these guidelines may be delivered, posted, faxed or emailed. Schedule 1 Application for In-Court Media Application To the Hearing Manager Environmental Court, We request permission to: film take still photographs during record The following proceedings: Case name Number Scheduled start date Expected dates of coverage [In the case of television or radio] Name of programme or program...

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5. ENVC speech Alternative Dispute Resolution 2011 [pdf, 188 KB]

   ...already been made at these processes. It may be important for the case-managing judge to be alert to this sort of issue. [28] While mentioning the thinking of Judge Rackemann, it is interesting to read a recent article by him in the National Environmental Law Review, 1 the official journal of the National Environmental Law Association of Australia. I will leave those interested to read the article, but simply note here that Judge Rackemann offers an interesting critique of the...

6. ENV-2016-AKL-000212 Smithies Family Trust v Auckland Council [pdf, 269 KB]

   ...lack of opportunity and flexibility for appropriate subdivision and use within the rural zones, and the Rural Production zone in particular. (b) Inappropriately try to protect rural land from forms of subdivision which will in fact have important environmental and ecological benefits, including the protection, rehabilitation or enhancement of significant biological diversity. (c) Are not based on any sound resource management rationale as to why appropriately formulated rules (as have...

7. [2012] NZEmpC 17 Transpacific Industries Group (NZ) Ltd v Harris & Others [pdf, 90 KB]

   ...17 ARC 96/11 IN THE MATTER OF an application for special leave for removal of a matter to the Employment Court BETWEEN TRANSPACIFIC INDUSTRIES GROUP (NZ) LIMITED Applicant AND KAINE HARRIS First Respondent AND SMART ENVIRONMENTAL LIMITED Second Respondent Hearing: 2 February 2012 (Heard at Auckland) Counsel: Stephen Langton and Alex Chadwick, counsel for the applicant Gretchen Stone, counsel for the respondents Judgment: 9 February 20...

8. ENVC Matiatia expert witness coastal ecology antifouling 2014 [pdf, 3.4 MB]

   ...some additional quantitative information is required before an informed decision can be reached. be modified to ... CW considered that a great deal more quantitative information is required before fully informed decisions regarding the potential environmental impacts of the proposed marina on Matiatia Bay can be reached." Coastal Ecology and Antifouling Joint Witness Statement I 2 INTRODUCTION 1. This signed joint witness statement is written in response to the Court'...

9. Wairakei Pastoral Limited [pdf, 452 KB]

   ...reference in Matter (iii) to demonstrating how the Goals and Principles will be achieved given the wording of Goals 1, 2, 6, 7 and 8 and Principles 9, 11, 13, 15, 16, 18 and 20. 6 iii. The reference in Matter (iv) to achieving the “environmental outcomes of the stock exclusion requirements in Schedule C” when there are none; and iv. The reference in Matter (v) to cumulative effects. i. The unworkable requirement for an applicant to provide an assessment by comparis...

10. [2020] NZEnvC 188 NZ Fairy Tern Charitable Trust v Auckland Council [pdf, 503 KB]

    ...there appears to have been a significant expenditure of money upstream of the dam on inanga spawning areas when the dam continued to bar such spawning. [21] Overall, I conclude this is a salutary lesson in the need for parties to focus on the environmental outcomes necessary rather than on litigation and blame. I strongly recommend that the Council consider trying to form some sort of multi interest approach to the issues at Te Arai, particularly as they relate to the fairy tern....