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269: Court procedure
or “The Environment Court can decide how to run its cases, making sure they're fair, quick, and easy to understand for everyone.”
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“Putting related cases together for a fair and efficient hearing”

The Environment Court will listen to two or more cases about the same topic at the same time. They will do this unless they think it’s not practical, not needed, or not a good idea.

This rule applies whenever the Environment Court can hear the cases. It doesn’t matter if the cases come from this law, another law, or a mix of different laws and rules.

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or “The court holds meetings and hearings close to where the issue happened, unless everyone agrees to meet somewhere else.”
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Part 11 Environment Court
Procedure and powers

270Hearing matters together

  1. The Environment Court shall hear together 2 or more proceedings relating to the same subject matter unless in the court's opinion it is impractical, unnecessary, or undesirable.

  2. Subsection (1) applies whenever the Environment Court has jurisdiction to hear the proceedings, whether or not they arise under this Act or another Act or regulation or a combination of Acts and regulations.

Notes
  • Section 270(1): amended, on , pursuant to section 6(2)(a) of the Resource Management Amendment Act 1996 (1996 No 160).
  • Section 270(2): amended, on , pursuant to section 6(2)(a) of the Resource Management Amendment Act 1996 (1996 No 160).