1 Mar 2022
The application for leave was dismissed because the proposed appeal raised only case‑specific issues, did not involve a point of general or public importance, and did not demonstrate any real risk of miscarriage of justice or that the concurrent factual findings of the lower courts were wrong.
27 Nov 2014
Because s 9 has no extraterritorial effect and the debt payable under the policy is situated where the debtor (the Lloyd's syndicate) resides in London, New Zealand courts lacked subject matter jurisdiction to make a s 9 charging order; policy provisions (payment in NZ, NZ law, exclusive NZ jurisdiction, currency) do not alter situs absent the insurer carrying on business in multiple jurisdictions.
19 Sept 2013
Majority: s104(1)(a) of the RMA does not permit consent authorities to take into account the climate-change effects of greenhouse gas emissions arising from the subsequent combustion (end use) of coal exported and burned overseas when deciding land-use and related consents; the 2004 Amendment Act and its operative provisions (notably ss70A,104E,104F) demonstrate Parliament's intention that effects of greenhouse gas discharges be addressed by national mechanisms and that regional and local regulatory and consenting functions should not extend to those downstream/extraterritorial emissions; all…
31 May 2012
The Court upheld the High Court: the Commission established a good arguable case that conduct by Kuehne + Nagel NZ in New Zealand could be attributed to the Swiss parent under s 90(2) of the Commerce Act 1986 and there are serious issues to be tried on the five alleged price fixing agreements (WRS 2001, UK NES, Air AMS, Italian SAF, Canadian ACI); therefore the protest to jurisdiction was correctly dismissed and the appeal is dismissed.