Lower Hutt City Council v Bank - [1974] 1 NZLR 545

Local government — Municipal corporations — Streets — Corporation agreeing to grant lease subject to its taking steps to stop streets — Objections lodged to stopping — Council unable to "inquire into and dispose of the objections" — Municipal Corporations Act 1954, s 170(4)(h), sixth schedule.

Administrative law — Natural justice — A duty to "inquire into and dispose of . . . objections" not merely administrative but imports judicial function.