Ronaki Ltd v Number One Town and Country Planning Appeal Board and Others - [1976] 1 NZLR 593

Town and country planning — Appeals — Applicant's land in 10 acre blocks under the council's scheme could be used for the erection of a dwellinghouse thereon — The Minister of Works appealed against the council's scheme — Applicant was not represented at the appeal and the board's decision altered the council's scheme so that the applicant could no longer build on its 10 acre sections — Applicant had common law rights apart from the Town and Country Planning Act 1952, s 42.

Administrative law — Judicial review — On an application to review a decision the court has no jurisdiction to substitute its own decision for that reviewed — Judicature Amendment Act 1972, s 4(2).