McLaren v Waikato Regional Council - [1993] 1 NZLR 710

Arbitration — Award — Nature of reference to arbitration — Whether parties had referred a specific question of law to arbitration thus making award not reviewable by Court — Whether in the absence of exclusion of curial review for error of law Court should decline to intervene if tribunal had adopted appropriate principles for construction of documents in general and had arrived at a construction reasonably open to it.

Contract — Employment contract — Termination — Arbitration — Award — Judicial review — Construction of contract — Whether resort may be had to post-contract conduct of the parties as an aid to interpretation.