Aotearoa Water Action Inc v Canterbury Regional Council

COURT OR TRIBUNAL

High Court of New Zealand

DATE FILED (OR FIRST HEARING DATE)

09/12/2019

LITIGATION TYPE

Project Approval - Adaptation

SUBJECT MATTER

Water

REVIEW TYPE

Judicial review

SUMMARY

(Lexis Catchwords & Digest)

Administrative law — Judicial review — Council decision — No reviewable errors

Application for judicial review. First respondent regional council granted resource consent to second and third respondents to use ground water for commercial bottling. Applicant challenged validity of first respondent's decisions both as to notification and substantively as to grant of consents. Finding that there was no error in process by which first respondent decided that notification of applications was not required. Finding that first respondent appropriately considered all relevant matters and did not have regard to any irrelevant matter in notification decision and in granting consent for changed use. Finding that there was no reviewable error on how first respondent dealt with second and third respondents' resource consent applications. Application dismissed.

CASE DOCUMENTS

Aotearoa Water Action Inc v Canterbury Regional Council [2020] NZHC 1625