19 Oct 2022
POUTAMA KAITIAKI CHARITABLE TRUST v HERITAGE NEW ZEALAND POUHERE TAONGA [2022] NZHC 2713
- Citation
- [2022] NZHC 2713
- Court
- High Court
The Environment Court applied the correct legal tests and precedents, its factual finding that Poutama lack the requisite whakapapa connection and customary authority was reasonably open on the evidence (including concessions by witnesses and lack of corroboration), therefore Poutama are not tangata whenua or directly affected for s58 purposes and the appeal fails as a matter of law.