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298: Documents judicially noticed
or “The court's seal makes documents official and believable in court”
You could also call this:

“You can ask a higher court to check if the Environment Court made a mistake about the law in their decision.”

If you are part of a case in the Environment Court, you can challenge the court’s decision if you think they made a mistake about the law. This is called an appeal. You can make this appeal to the High Court.

You can appeal any decision, report, or recommendation that the Environment Court made in your case. This applies to cases under the Resource Management Act or any other law.

When you make your appeal, you need to follow the rules set out in the High Court Rules 2016. However, if any of these rules don’t match up with sections 300 to 307 of this Act, you should follow those sections instead.

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or “This explains how to tell the court you disagree with an Environment Court decision and want to challenge it.”
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Part 11 Environment Court
Appeals from Environment Court decisions

299Appeal to High Court on question of law

  1. A party to a proceeding before the Environment Court under this Act or any other enactment may appeal on a question of law to the High Court against any decision, report, or recommendation of the Environment Court made in the proceeding.

  2. The appeal must be made in accordance with the High Court Rules 2016, except to any extent that those rules are inconsistent with sections 300 to 307.

Notes
  • Section 299: replaced, on , by section 48(1) of the Supreme Court Act 2003 (2003 No 53).
  • Section 299(1): amended, on , by section 150 of the Resource Management (Simplifying and Streamlining) Amendment Act 2009 (2009 No 31).
  • Section 299(2): amended, on , by section 183(c) of the Senior Courts Act 2016 (2016 No 48).