30 Aug 2023
HUNT v QUEENSTOWN LAKES DISTRICT COUNCIL [2023] NZHC 2379
- Citation
- [2023] NZHC 2379
- Court
- High Court
Leave to appeal was refused because the applicant failed to identify an arguable error of law or fact; the proper test under s 33L MTA is objective ('appears to have been abandoned') and importing a common law test requiring unequivocal subjective intention to relinquish ownership is inconsistent with the statute's language, purpose and prior authority; in the circumstances interests of justice and finality required dismissal of the leave application.