Thursday, 13 November 2025
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the latest senior court decisions involving judicial review of local government actions
- Gain insights into strategic and procedural considerations when challenging local government decisions
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD hour
* This interactive online recording includes questions and quizzes requiring critical thinking about the topics, so you have no annual limits to the number of points/hours you can claim with this format of learning. Please verify with your CPD rules
Challenging Loval Government Decisions- Making: A Review of Recent Senior Court Judicial Review Cases Involving Local Government
With proposed RMA reform likely to curtail merits-based appeal to the Environment Court, judicial review is set to become an even more vital tool for challenging Local Government decision-making.
- Review recent case law, examine strategic considerations when contesting council decisions, and discuss the practical limits of judicial review—particularly in contexts where statutory rights of appeal are narrowing and recourse to other legal options is limited
Presented by Stuart Ryan, Barrister, Ākarana Chambers
Presenters
Stuart Ryan, Barrister, Akarana ChambersStuart Ryan is a barrister with a specialist practice in resource management, local government, public law and related areas. Stuart has over 25 years’ experience in advising local government, corporates, developers, private individuals and industry associations. Stuart has experience in litigation at all levels, and provides advice on policy and legislation changes. Admitted to the Bar in 1989, Stuart was a partner at Tauranga law firm between 1999 and 2003 and a partner at a commercial law firm in Auckland from 2003 until commencing practice as barrister in 2009. Stuart regularly presents seminars to both clients and professional groups in his specialist areas and is a co-author of the Enforcement Order and Abatement Notice chapter in DSL’s Environmental Handbook.
