5 Dec 2019
AOTEAROA WATER ACTION INC v CANTERBURY REGIONAL COUNCIL [2019] NZHC 3187
- Citation
- [2019] NZHC 3187
- Court
- High Court
Leave to intervene granted in a limited form: the Rūnanga may file Dr Tau's affidavit and the Rūnanga's written submissions will be before the Court, but no oral submissions are permitted. The court held intervention should be restricted because the core legal question (classification and notification of change of use/amalgamation) would not determine or alter the Rūnanga's substantive legal rights in the water, the application was late, intervention risked widening scope and prejudicing parties, and the applicant's submissions substantially overlapped the Rūnanga's, so limited written involv…