Keeping and filing consent records
A misplaced quarry consent issued by the Whangarei District Council (WDC) in 1988 started a two-decade-long legal battle between the quarry owner and the Council....
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Environmental regulatory changes
Mike Doesburg, Partner at Wynn Williams who specialises in environmental and resource management law. As the meme goes: in 1920 we took children out of...
RMA – will tinkering result in better outcomes?
Mike Doesburg, Partner at Wynn Williams, who specialises in environmental and resource management law, talks about the ongoing RMA reforms and the uncertainty in the...
Wetland or minefield?
When the National Environmental Standards for Freshwater (NES-F) were passed in 2020, the wetland provisions felt like a hospital pass of a hand grenade to...
Quarrying in the fast-lane
Mike Doesburg, Partner, Wynn Williams, looks at stone, sand and streamlined approvals. The Covid-19 Recovery (Fast-track Consenting) Act 2020 (the Act) was a short-term measure...
Digging deeper
Mike Doesburg, Partner at Wyn Williams, reflects on resource management law and the quarrying and mining sector over the next year. As I wrote this...
RMA reform update
Louise Ford and Tait Hoby from Atkins Majurey provide an overview of the new NBEA and SPA Acts, and update the Select Committee inquiry into...
Forest & Bird loses to council in court
Louise Ford and Tait Hoby from Atkins Majurey provide an overview of the High Court’s recent decision, Royal Forest & Bird Protection Society of New...
A legal perspective – May 2023
Tait Hoby and Louise Ford from Atkins Holm Majure provide an overview of the Environment Court’s recent decision on Royal Forest & Bird Protection Society...
The emergence of Maori ‘tikanga’ in our legal system
Tait Hoby and Louise Ford, Atkins Holm Majurey discuss recent developments in our common law in relation to ‘tikanga Maori’ (Maori customs) in our legal...