Meadowvale Stud Farm Ltd v Stratford County Council - [1979] 1 NZLR 342

Administrative law — Bias — Duty to act fairly — Offensive trades licence granted subject to a disabling condition that in effect rendered it nugatory — Dairy company had opposed grant of licence — Five out of 12 Councillors were shareholders in the dairy company — Whether decision on licence application had been predetermined — Whether Council had acted fairly — Judicature Amendment Act 1972, as amended in 1977.