Foodstuffs (Auckland) Ltd v Planning Tribunal (Number One Division) - [1982] 2 NZLR 315

Judicial review — Privative clause — Jurisdictional error — Planning Tribunal had declared that a particular use was a permitted use without requiring the applicant to give notice of its application to trade competitors — Trade competitors applied to quash Tribunal's decision — Whether it was a jurisdictional error of law for the Tribunal not to consider trade competitors as being persons "directly" affected — Town and Country Planning Act 1977, ss 153, 159 and 162.