9 Sept 2020
COROMANDEL WATCHDOG OF HAURAKI (INCORPORATED) v MINISTER OF FINANCE AND ASSOCIATE MINISTER OF FINANCE [2020] NZHC 2345
- Citation
- COROMANDEL WATCHDOG OF HAURAKI (INCORPORATED) v MINISTER OF FINANCE AND ASSOCIATE MINISTER OF FINANCE [2020] NZHC 2345
- Court
- High Court
The Act's criteria and factors (s16, s17 and reg28) are prescriptive and focus on benefits; Ministers did not err by excluding general environmental detriments unless those detriments are captured within the prescribed statutory factors or considered within the required counterfactual/intra-factor assessment; a ministerial directive cannot create additional mandatory considerations; judicial review dismissed.