Environmental Defence Society Incorporated v The New Zealand King Salmon Company Limited

Costs – resource management

Environmental Defence Society Incorporated v The New Zealand King Salmon Company Limited – [2014] NZSC 167 – Elias CJ, McGrath, William Young, Glazebrook and Arnold JJ – 19 November 2014 

Awards of costs in SC – appeals by public interest litigants – issues of significant public importance under RMA – whether EDS as successful appellant entitled to award of costs – whether costs award appropriate against SOS (unsuccessful appellant in second appeal). 

  
  

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