Great Christchurch Buildings Trust v Church Property Trustees - [2014] 3 NZLR 236

Practice and procedure — Stay of proceedings — Incomplete decision-making process — Whether new resolution met concerns — Whether resolution a committed decision — Whether decision conditional — Whether Board honestly motivated.

Trusts and trustees — Discretionary trusts — Review of exercise of discretion by court — Whether application for judicial review appropriate — Whether substantial public interest — Standard of review of trustees’ decisions — Whether decision prompted by indirect motive, with honesty of intention and fair consideration of issues.

Trusts and trustees — Trustees’ application — Relief against personal liability for breach of trust — Whether breach could be repaired — Proceeding part-heard — Proceeding in public domain — Whether appropriate for claim to be abandoned — Whether appropriate for claim to be resolved in open Court.