Holler v Osaki - [2014] 3 NZLR 791

Property law — Residential tenancy — Damage — Tenant’s wife negligently causing fire at property — Whether tenant and wife entitled to benefit of landlords’ insurance — Whether immunity from claim by landlords — Whether general principles of law from Property Law Act applying to claim — Property Law Act 2007, Part 4 and ss 268 and 269.

Statutes — Construction — Whether rule that specialist legislation overrode general legislation — Residential Tenancies Act 1986, s 146.