Planet Kids Ltd v Auckland Council - [2014] 1 NZLR 149

Contract — Frustration — Principles — Construction of contract — Multi-factorial approach — Allocation of risk — Reasonable and objectively ascertainable expectations of parties — Partial impossibility — Whether main purpose of contract frustrated — Whether hardship required — Hardship and other means of achieving objectives as factors — Role of Contractual Remedies Act 1979.

Local government — Powers — Payment of money under contract — Whether restrictions on compensation to be paid for land acquired by agreement — Public Works Act 1981, s 62.

Public Works — Compensation — Whether restrictions on compensation to be paid for land acquired by agreement — Public Works Act 1981, s 62.