NZI Financial Corporation Ltd v New Zealand Kiwifruit Authority - [1986] 1 NZLR 159

Administrative law — Judicial review — Bias — Unreasonableness — Duty to give reasons — Kiwifruit Authority refused to grant eligibility to tender for export licences and gave no reasons for its refusal — Criteria for eligibility seemed to be satisfied — Whether Authority members' involvement in the industry gave rise to presumptive bias — Whether on test of real likelihood of bias a member's interest in a company which was granted eligibility to tender gave rise to actual bias — Whether Authority was obliged to give reasons for its refusal — Whether refusal to grant eligibility was unreasonable — Kiwifruit Marketing Licensing Regulations 1977, regs 3, 12(1)(f), 21 and 22.