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1. OTAGO REGIONAL COUNCIL v NGA RUNANGA - NOE 10-13 May 2021.pdf [pdf, 2.1 MB]

   ...needing to be 15 resilient against both external influences such as pandemics, but also increasingly influences closer to home in the form of regulations from short sighted regional councils. I have spent hundreds of hours engaged in the deemed permit renewal process for our community and the minimum flow setting process. And now we are here, talking of short term, low cost 20 rollovers. There is nothing low cost about this process and short term holds a higher cost than many of u...

2. [2024] NZEnvC 178 Te Raranga a Te Kuihi Trust v Kaipara District Council [pdf, 3.2 MB]

   ...400m2 minimum. b. 500m2 average. 2. Every allotment can contain a rectangle of at least 8m by 15m. 4. The allotment contains an identified building area of at least 100m2 within which a residential unit can be built so there is compliance with the permitted activity standards for the General Residential Area. 5. A No Complaints covenant regarding existing or permitted activity land based primary production activities is proposed to be registered on the Certificates of Title of allotm...

3. [2020] NZEnvC 102 Public and Population Health Unit of the Northland District Health Board v Northland Regional Council [pdf, 425 KB]

   ...operation. [8] However by the time of the Consent Memorandum on 22nd May 2020, the parties had not been able to agree on the approach in respect of fumigants. The issue [9] The Regional Council originally included discharge of fumigants as a permitted activity and the appeal filed by the Public and Population Health Unit for the Northland District Health Board, sought to have these as full discretionary activities. The Council subsequently acknowledged the difficulties in relation...

4. [2017] NZEnvC 091 Granger Forrester and Caradoc Davies v Peninsula Holdings Trust and Steve Clearwater Contracting Limited [pdf, 1.2 MB]

   ...addition to seeking the cessation of any quarrying activities, that: (a) The respondents remediate the areas of the property where there has been quarrying or excavation or related activity (including removal of over-burden) outside the boundaries / permitted area for such activity, by replacing as far as possible the material removed, and re-contouring as closely as possible to reinstate the previous natural contours of the land and re-grassing and re-planting such areas; and (...

5. Guo v Culpan (Agent) [2017] NZHRRT 57 [pdf, 160 KB]

   ...(2) PLAINTIFF’S SEARCH ORDER APPLICATION1 Background [1] Ms Guo is a former patient of Dr Culpan. On 28 August 2015 she requested a copy of her medical file. It is alleged Dr Culpan did not respond to this request within the timeline permitted by s 40 of the Privacy Act 1993. A second allegation is that when the requested information was released, that release was incomplete. Dr Culpan responds that Ms Guo was provided with a copy of her full medical file on 29 September 201...

6. [2024] NZEnvC 065 Van Den Brink Group v Waikato District Council [pdf, 673 KB]

   ...Introduction [1] This consent determination relates to an appeal against the decisions of Waikato District Council on the Proposed Waikato District Plan (PDP) in relation to submissions by the Appellant seeking amendments to the height of buildings permitted within the Whangarata business park in the General Industrial Zone (GIZ) at Tuakau. Background [2] The Appellant is the owner of several properties located within the Whangarata Business Park in Tuakau. The original submiss...

7. Mental Health (Compulsory Assessment and Treatment) Amendment Bill.pdf [pdf, 163 KB]

   ...patient; b. eliminate indefinite treatment orders, and allow a compulsory treatment order, that is further extended after a 6-month extension, to be extended for 12-months only; and c. minimise the risk of harm to special patients1 or the public by permitting the use of restraints and force on special patients, on a case-by-case basis, when transporting2 them. 6. The Bill also addresses technical drafting issues and makes amendments relating to the COVID-19 pandemic. 1 ‘Special...

8. [2024] NZEnvC 137 Auckland Council v Sharma [pdf, 242 KB]

   ...the appeal. 1 Resource Management Act 1991. 3 Background [3] On 19 January 2015, Land Use Consent LUC60126324 was granted for works on the Site. The consent authorised the respondents to construct a dwelling and a shed. The consent permitted “1588m2 of impermeable surface coverage, separation distance and yard infringements, a total of 2250m3 of earthworks over an area of 1850m2 and a variation to Consent Notice 7492866.3.”2 On 3 May 2016, the Council approved a var...

9. [2020] NZIACDT 21 - Immigration New Zealand (Carley) v Penty (18 May 2020) [pdf, 169 KB]

   ...any evidence or explanation which might establish that the outcome of the complaint against her should be different. BACKGROUND [5] Ms Penty was at the material time provisionally licensed as an immigration adviser, having been granted such a licence on 9 May 2017. She was an employee of Novo Education Consulting Limited (Novo), trading as Choose New Zealand. She was based in Auckland. Her supervisor was her employer, Mr Cleland, then a full licence holder. He was a director o...

10. Transcript - Dunedin - Hearing - PC7 - 17 May to 20 May 2021 [pdf, 2.9 MB]

    ...we’re asking you about that and then the dam question? A. Yes, so in terms of the dam question we’ve been in communication with Mr Page and highlighted the dams on which the Court and the Council would be interested in understanding the suite of permits that apply to 30 4 OTAGO REGIONAL COUNCIL v NGA RUNANGA & Ors NOE ENV DUNEDIN - (17 May 2021) each of them, so a list of dams was sent through to Mr Page. Over the weekend there has been a supplementary brief filed by Mr...