Court of Appeal overturns misfeasance
Frana Divich, Heaney and Partners. Misfeasance in a public office is the common law’s only public law tort. It is unusual because only public...
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Governance review – Tauranga City Council
Jeremy Sole explains how, in the new world of CCOs, the Tauranga City Council’s recent bi-annual CCO board review was provided by a framework based...
Challenging behaviours in community meetings
If your role requires you to facilitate community meetings or workshops, at some point you will come face-to-face with challenging behaviours and difficult group...
Hold the line, we know what we are doing
Louise LaHatte, chair of The Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa’s (LIANZA) Freedom for Information standing committee, says libraries defend a person’s right...
Health and safety conference in Christchurch
The use of BIM (Building Information Modelling) in construction has doubled in the last six years and has been mandated for all government projects greater...
What elected members need to know
For most elected members it is mid-term. But the out-of-cycle election of members marking the return of Tauranga City Council from a Commission to fully...
Supreme Court green lights climate change case
Frana Divich, Partner, Heaney and Partners. On 7 February 2024 the Supreme Court allowed a novel climate change case called Smith v Fonterra Co-Operative Group...
Are our air quality standards working
In the Local Government magazine archives we found a press release from the Environment Minister at the time, Marian Hobbs, who in August 2005 claimed...
Court of Appeal quashes NPS-FM exemption
In Muaupoko Tribal Authority Incorporated v Minister for the Environment [2023] NZCA 641, the Court of Appeal upheld a claim for judicial review against the...
Calling for sensible traffic management
Operations like traffic management and aviation security need to be accountable for what they do, especially when they are operating under a public regulatory framework,...