28 May 2012
INDEPENDENT FISHERIES LTD V THE MINISTER FOR CANTERBURY EARTHQUAKE RECOVERY HC CHCH CIV-2012-409-500
- Citation
- openlaw-7f1ae33a_ba01_4492_9d91_c3e94957ea1c.pdf
- Court
- High Court
Where judicial review challenges a statutory decision and urgent implementation is occurring, the Court must balance the interests of justice and expedition by joining only those parties necessary to decide the review and protect rights to effective relief; the decisionmaker remains the primary respondent, background evidence may be called by the decisionmaker, and joinder may be limited to issues of relief to avoid relitigation of merits. Applying those principles the Court ordered limited joinder and intervention and a strict timetable to preserve expedition and fairness.