Auckland City Council as Assignee of Body Corporate 16113 v Auckland City Council - [2008] 1 NZLR 838

Practice and procedure — Champerty — Maintenance — Assignment to defendant council of original plaintiffs’ causes of action against remaining defendants as part of settlement agreement — Application by defendants to strike out statement of claim as unlawfully maintaining causes of action, champertous and contrary to public policy — Principles to be applied — Whether council had “genuine commercial interest” in completing settlement and taking assignment of claims — Interests of justice — Whether any prejudice to defendants given law of contribution — Law Reform Act 1936, s 17.