Quake Outcasts v Minister for Canterbury Earthquake Recovery on appeal from Minister for Canterbury Earthquake Recovery v Fowler Developments Ltd - [2016] 1 NZLR 1

Constitutional law — Executive powers — Whether statute covered the field — Whether government could take measures outside statute — Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Act 2011.

Judicial review — Relevant and irrelevant considerations — Christchurch Earthquakes — Crown purchase of earthquake damaged land and properties — Whether insurance status of property rational basis for different offers — Whether determinative consideration — Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Act 2011, s 53.

Statutes — Interpretation — Christchurch Earthquakes — Whether power of Crown to purchase earthquake damaged property required pre-existing Recovery Strategy or Recovery Plan — Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Act 2011, s 53.