17 Oct 2013
ROYAL FOREST AND BIRD PROTECTION SOCIETY OF NEW ZEALAND INC v BULLER DISTRICT COUNCIL & ANOR CA514/2013 [2013] NZCA 496
- Citation
- [2013] NZCA 496
- Court
- Court of Appeal
Leave to appeal was refused because the Environment Court's determinative findings of fact—that the Solid Energy coal mining licence was not equivalent to a permitted activity or resource consent and that activation of the licence was speculative—were not amenable to appeal as questions of law; Hawthorn was not misapplied and its summary at [84] is not legislative; s3(f) does not alter the prior task of defining the relevant 'environment'; no question of law of sufficient public importance justified special leave.