ELI wins again against ECan
Tom Ackroyd, Aerial view of the Ashburton River North Branch, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
ELI has comprehensively won a recent hearing against Environment Canterbury in our pollution rule case
The High Court has dismissed Environment Canterbury’s (ECan) application seeking directions that ELI serve a range of “interested parties” and publish a public notice regarding our ECan Pollution Rule case.
In the same judgment, Justice Osbourne ruled that ECan is required to provide further and better particulars in its statement of defence in this case, including the specific parts of documents and information on which it relied to satisfy itself of the absence of effects under s 70(1) of the Resource Management Act 1991 when involving r 5.63 in the Canterbury Land and Water Regional Plan.
ELI’s Director of Research and Legal said:
“We are pleased that the High Court has ruled comprehensively in ELI’s favour. We look forward to the substance of this important case about freshwater pollution being heard in the High Court so that ECan can be held to account for its decision making.”
ELI has been awarded costs.