Wakefield Group Holdings Ltd v Kapiti Coast District Council - [2025] 3 NZLR 650

Judicial Review — Error of law — Scope of Council members’ discretion — Deciding whether to dedicate road reserve as legal road — Whether Council members had discretion to consider wider community effects — Roading and matters relating to concluded resource consent — Whether to dedicate road reserve as legal road — Reserves Act 1977 s 111.

Judicial Review — Error of fact — Whether erroneous statements by Council members amounted to a material error of fact.

Judicial Review — Procedural impropriety — Whether Council members abused their discretion under s 111 of the Reserves Act 1977 — Reserves Act 1977 s 111.

Judicial Review — Predetermination — Bias — Whether two Council members who voted against dedicating the road reserve as a legal road had pre-determined their decision.

Judicial Review — Legitimate expectation — Whether legitimate expectation Council would dedicate road reserve as legal road.

Judicial Review — Unreasonableness — Whether Council members acted unreasonably in deciding not to dedicate road reserve as legal road.