18 May 2015
THE MAJOR ELECTRICITY USERS' GROUP INC v THE COMMERCE COMMISSION [2015] NZHC 1042
- Citation
- [2015] NZHC 1042
- Court
- High Court
Because challenges to input methodology determinations are essentially regulatory rulemaking contests in which suppliers and purchasers properly participate in their own interests, costs between those participants in the leave application should lie where they fall; accordingly the Court declined to award costs against MEUG on its unsuccessful leave application, not because MEUG was a consumer representative, but because of the regulatory character of the proceedings and the appropriate inclusive approach to participation.