3 May 2016
MANGAWHAI RATEPAYERS' AND RESIDENTS' ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED v KAIPARA DISTRICT COUNCIL [2016] NZSC 48
- Citation
- [2016] NZSC 48
- Court
- Supreme Court
Leave to appeal was dismissed because the issues the applicant sought to raise were not arguable in the face of clear statutory language: s118 LGA 2002 gives conclusive effect that precludes the narrower interpretation the applicant sought; the 2013 validation Act must be read as validating the rates generally in the present unique factual context; and the costs decision in the Court of Appeal was a factspecific exercise not warranting intervention.