Hardegger v Southland Regional Council - [2017] 2 NZLR 852

Resource management — Sentencing — Criminal charges successfully brought for works done in and around sensitive waterways without resource consent or express rule in regional plan allowing work — Whether fines imposed inconsistent with fines in comparable cases — Whether error in assessing culpability of offenders — Failure to adjust fines to recognise inter-relationship between offenders — Whether double punishment — Resource Management Act 1991, s 6.