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1. 2013 Justice Sector annual report [pdf, 12 MB]

   ...2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 20ll Year ending June (not all Police crime categories shown) THE MURDER RATE IS LOW. - Theft and related offences Unlawful entry with intent! burglary, break and enter - Property damage and environmental pollution - Public order offences - Acts intended to cause injury - Illicit drug offences Sexual assault and related offences - Homicide and related offences New Zealand 's murder rate is lower than that in Austr...

2. [2017] NZEnvC 209 Auckland Council v London Pacific Family Trust [pdf, 1.1 MB]

   ...Rules apply across the AUP except the RPS or where 'a rule specifically provides otherwise'; (b) C1.1 (2) is to the same effect as s 9(3) RMA, namely that no person may contravene a rule in the AUP unless expressly allowed by a National Environmental Standard, resource consent, or existing use rights; (c) C1.4(c) relevantly provides: Where a proposal will take place ... on a site which is partially affected by an overlay ... then the proposal must comply with the overlay...

3. [2018] NZEnvC 027 Kumeu Property Limited v Auckland Council [pdf, 17 MB]

   ...merit, and acknowledged "the care invested in expressing a large-scale development in as much as the rural aesthetic as we consider possible." The commissioners also noted "We also consider the applicant demonstrated that many of the environmental effects arising from the proposal, and of concern to the submitters, such as on-site servicing and traffic could be managed appropriately through conditions" . [5] Two key conclusions appear to have guided the commissio...

4. [2018] NZEnvC 084 Director General of Conservation and Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society of NZ v Invercargill City Council [pdf, 6.2 MB]

   ...the anticipated effecls of climale change on indigenous biodiversity requires avoiding cumulative effects. For example, to allow movement and resilience in the face of changing conditions it is importanllo: (a) prolect species at geographic and environmental limils, and oulliers (which are likely 10 have distinci trails and important adaptive varialions'9) ; (b) prolecl mulliple large populations of species; (c) avoid continuing habilat fragmenlation and/or reductions in Ihe ar...

5. 2020-12-07 Statement of Evidence of Roderick Henderson on behalf of the ORC [pdf, 1.1 MB]

   ...analysis of flow data and catchment characteristics. 55 Achieving a water balance (i.e., accounting as completely as possible for all the water inputs and outputs) is important to allow testing of options and assessment of effects, be they economic, environmental or social. This is especially true of catchments that are under high pressure for competing uses of water. River Flow Data 56 The number of river flow data collection sites in Otago has varied over many decades accordin...

6. Brown - Kairakau 2C5B (2002) 167 Napier MB 139 (167 NA 139) [pdf, 857 KB]

   ...Kairakau 2C5B. That wish and desire seems to have faded, at least as an immediate prospect. Before me, concerns were expressed about adding to the sewage in the area, as there had been seepage from septic tanks at Kairakau Beach. The Maori owners had environmental concerns, and said they did not want to risk pollution that might result from further developing the land for a marae. From their evidence, I established that the use to which the minority owners wished to put the land is fair...

7. [2018] NZEnvC 187 Calcutta Farms Limited v Matamata-Piako District Council [pdf, 2.6 MB]

   ...covered by the Banks Road Structure Plan were: (a) the Structure Plan anticipated this could occur through the plan change process; and (b) the servicing of the new area could be accommodated by the existing infrastructure network; and (c) any environmental effects would be less than minor. [49] The reasons given for introducing a Future Residential Policy Area to the north side of Banks Road rather than Tower Road was that: (a) it would signal that this land could be considered...

8. Chief Coroner 2019-20 Annual Report [pdf, 2 MB]

   ...is canny to make a full circle in my career by returning to now sit in the Rotorua Coroners Court. I was the first New Zealander to obtain a Masters in Law from the University of South Pacific with a focus on the integration of customary and environmental laws. I have worked in challenging and interesting areas of the law throughout my legal career. Starting in a “boutique” resource management private law firm, to central government as solicitor for Te Papa Atawhai / Depart...

9. Waitangi Tribunal - He Whiritaunoka (Whanganui) chapter 28 [pdf, 857 KB]

   1457 Chapter 28 Findings and Recommendations 28.1 Introduction here, we set out in digest form the tribunal’s findings and recommendations, with rele­ vant Crown concessions. We reproduce our findings here in summary form for ease of reference. Not all chapters had findings. For some, there are findings but no recommendations. This depends on the subject matter. We make no findings or recommendations about events before 1840. We make findings but no specific recommendations about nine

10. [2015] NZEnvC 218 Waiheke Marinas Ltd [pdf, 11 MB]

    BEFORETHEE~ONMENTCOURT Hearing at: Court: Appearances: Decision No. [2015] NZEnvC 218 IN THE MATTER of the Resource Management Act 1991 IN THE MATTER of a Notice of Motion under Section 87G requesting the granting of resource consents to Waiheke Marinas Limited to establish a Marina at Matiatia Bay, Waiheke Island, in the Hauraki Gulf BY W AIHEKE MARINAS LIMITED ("WML") (ENV -2014-AKL-OOO 174) Applicant at Auckland in the weeks of 6, 13,20 and 27 October 2014 and