Ririnui v Landcorp Farming Ltd - [2016] 1 NZLR 1056

Corporate bodies — State-owned Enterprises — Whether courts could grant relief in respect of contract — Whether appropriate case for setting contract aside — State-Owned Enterprises Act 1986, s 21.

Judicial review — Ministerial decision — Decisions by shareholding ministers whether to intervene in decisions by state-owned enterprise — Whether exercise of public power – Whether lawful exercise of power — Whether decisions relating to Treaty of Waitangi justiciable — Whether and when decisions relating to Treaty reviewable.

Judicial review — State-owned Enterprises — Decision to enter into contract — Whether review limited to fraud, corruption, bad faith etc — Whether contract had substantial public interest component — Existence and extent of prejudice to third parties — Whether appropriate case for setting contract aside.

Judicial review — Treaty of Waitangi — Whether decisions relating to Treaty of Waitangi justiciable — Whether and when decisions relating to Treaty reviewable.