Southern Ocean Trawlers Ltd v Director-General of Agriculture and Fisheries - [1993] 2 NZLR 53

Administrative law — Judicial review — Fishing quota — Review of decision of director-general of Agriculture and Fisheries — Appeal against High Court decisions striking out application for review — Whether forfeiture of quota was automatic three months after a quota holder became subject to overseas control — Whether the director-general could cure the forfeiture by purporting to give an extension of time — Whether the director-general could restore the quota without first determining that there had been a forfeiture — Fisheries Act 1983, ss 28U and 28Z.

Practice and procedure — Striking out proceedings — Judicial review — Principles to be applied on an application to strike out.