Calvert & Co v Dunedin City Council - [1993] 2 NZLR 460

Administrative law — Judicial review — Local authority members voting on resolutions in which they had pecuniary interest — Plaintiff ratepayers seeking setting aside resolutions — Whether Courts discretion should be exercised in favour of plaintiff.

Local government — Local authority trading enterprises — Appointment of local authority members as directors of enterprise — Prohibition against members discussing and/or voting on matters in which they had pecuniary interest — Exemption in case of appointments to office — Whether appointment as director of enterprise was appointment to "office" - Circumstances in which indirect pecuniary interests arise — Local Authorities (Members' Interests) Act 1968, s 6 - Local Government Act 1974, ss 594R and 101ZZO.