Director Brigitte Morten on RNZ's Nine to Noon.

The Court of Appeal upheld a High Court decision to decline a property developer’s application for summary judgment that it was the “Controlling Member” of a residents’ society, formed for the purpose of a development. The Court upheld a summary judgment that the “Controlling Member” position had been disestablished when developer had sold all its land in the development.

A local authority was liable to a landowner for taking enforcement action against them under the Resource Management Act 1991 without checking their records as to whether the use of the land was consented.