New Health New Zealand Inc v South Taranaki District Council and Attorney-General (for and on behalf of the Minister of Health) - SC 141/2016

Media releases

MR [2018] NZSC 59 and MR [2018] NZSC 60 (PDF 259 KB)

Summary

Civil Appeal

Result

A Leave to appeal is granted (New Health New Zealand Inc v South Taranaki District Council [2016] NZCA 462, [2017] 2 NZLR 13).
B The approved question is whether the Court of Appeal was correct to dismiss the appeals of the appellant in CA159/2014, CA615/2014 and CA529/2015.
20 February 2017

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The application for leave to admit the TDB report annexed to the affidavit of Philip Barry is dismissed.
30 October 2017

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A The appeals from the decision of the Court of Appeal in relation to CA529/2015 and CA615/2014, referred to respectively as the Regulations and Medicines Act appeals, are dismissed.
B Costs are reserved. Any memoranda on costs may be filed by 31 July 2018. 27 June 2018 A The appeal is dismissed. B The appellant must pay the first respondent costs of $20,000 plus usual disbursements.
C We make no award of costs in favour of the second respondent.
27 June 2018

Date of Hearing

16 November 2017 — 17 November 2017

Hearing Transcripts

Hearing date 16 and 17 November 2017 (PDF 1.1 MB)