19 Dec 2017
NGĀI TAI KI TĀMAKI TRIBAL TRUST v MINISTER OF CONSERVATION [2017] NZCA 613
- Citation
- [2017] NZCA 613
- Court
- Court of Appeal
The Court dismissed the appeal: ss 7 and 8 of the HGMP Act and s 4 of the Conservation Act require a balancing of tangata whenua and public interests but do not confer a veto or exclusive entitlement to concessions; the decision-maker sufficiently considered and balanced those statutory obligations, the limited legal errors were not outcome-determinative, and discretionary relief was refused because quashing five-year interim concessions would cause undue prejudice to third parties and was not justified.