26 Sept 2008
NZ FEDERATION OF COMMERCIAL FISHERMEN INCORPORATED AND ORS V MINISTER OF FISHERIES AND ANOR HC WN CIV-2008-485-2016
- Citation
- openlaw-12c961eb_612a_492f_a261_ce29f89812bf.pdf
- Court
- High Court
Court granted limited interim declarations and relief because applicants demonstrated a sufficiently arguable case and the relief was necessary to preserve affected fishers' position; on balance the limited scope and uncertainty of conservation risk from the permitted activities, together with the severity and irretrievability of economic harm to fishers, justified interim relief subject to an express termination condition that any Hector's (including Maui's) dolphin mortality caused by permitted activities immediately terminates the interim relief; substantive hearing to be expedited; costs…