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301: Right to appear and be heard on appeal
or “This law explains how you can tell the court you want to speak during an appeal about the environment.”
You could also call this:

“This explains who can be part of a court case when someone disagrees with what the Environment Court decided.”

You can be part of an appeal in the High Court if you’re the person who started the appeal or if you’ve told the court you want to be involved. This is explained in [section 301].

When you’re part of an appeal, the person in charge at the High Court (called the Registrar) has to make sure you get some important things. They need to give you:

  1. Every document that’s given to the High Court about your appeal.
  2. Information about when your appeal will be heard in court.

This way, you’ll know what’s happening with your appeal and when you need to go to court.

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Part 11 Environment Court
Appeals from Environment Court decisions

302Parties to the appeal before the High Court

  1. The parties to an appeal before the High Court are the appellant and any person who gives notice of intention to appear under section 301.

  2. The Registrar of the High Court shall ensure that the parties to an appeal before the High Court are served with—

  3. every document which is filed or lodged with the Registrar of the High Court which relates to the appeal; and
    1. notice of the date set down for hearing the appeal.

      Notes
      • Section 302(2)(a): amended, on , by section 111 of the Resource Management Amendment Act 2005 (2005 No 87).