New Zealand Steel Mining Limited v The Honourable DJ Butcher

Civil procedure – Treaty of Waitangi – natural resources

New Zealand Steel Mining Limited v The Honourable DJ Butcher – [2014] NZHC 1552 – 4 July 2014 – Fogarty J

Leave to discontinue – proceeding challenged Crown proposal to remove land from statutory licence to mine ironsands – 1990 undertakings not to mine wahi tapu blocks pending early hearing – lapse of 25 years while Crown negotiated with Ngati Te Ata – lifting of undertakings required to mine subject area – whether discontinuance appropriate.

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