Videbeck v Auckland City Council - [2002] 3 NZLR 842

Resource management — Judicial review — Notification — Scheme and purpose of Part VI relating to notification — Whether report on assessments balanced — Whether decision maker able, on basis of information supplied, to make independent decision — Whether decision making amounted to “rubber-stamping” and de facto sub-delegation — Whether decision valid to grant resource consents on non-notified basis — Resource Management Act 1991, ss 34(4), 88, 92, 93, 94(2), 96, 100, 115, 116, 120, Fourth Schedule.

Judicial review — Remedies — Resource management — Notification — Validity of decision not to notify application — Unreasonableness — Application of principle of Wednesbury unreasonableness — Relief — Whether relief available where both parties innocent — Balancing of relevant factors and prejudice.