Ratepayers and Residents Action Association Inc v Auckland City Council - [1986] 1 NZLR 746

Practice and procedure — Security for costs — Impecunious plaintiff — Incorporated society — Public interest — Ratepayers Association brought judicial review proceedings challenging the power of Auckland City Council to enter into a contract for the construction of a cultural and recreational complex — Association's only asset was cash of $101.25 — Whether the Association should be ordered to provide security for costs — Whether the public interest element in the litigation was a factor to be taken into account in the exercise of the Court's discretion — Incorporated Societies Act 1908, s 17.