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Reconceptualising specialist environment courts and tribunals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Ceri Warnock
Ceri Warnock*
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University of Otago, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand
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Abstract

Specialist environment courts and tribunals (SECs) are, in the main, reflective of highly dynamic forms of adjudication, mixing judicial forms with powers more traditionally found in the executive. However, despite their novel legal nature the literature on SECs is predominantly promotional and it fails to address the challenges to legitimacy and governance engendered by these institutions. Nor does it evince a robust theory of environmental adjudication. These omissions not only impoverish the discourse but practice unsupported by theory is creating an unstable edifice. To illustrate this point the difficulties experienced in New Zealand are examined. The argument is made that only by confronting the challenges created by SECs can we begin to lay the foundations for a new theoretical model capable of explaining and accommodating environmental adjudication.

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Legal Studies , Volume 37 , Issue 3 , September 2017 , pp. 391 - 417
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Copyright © Society of Legal Scholars 2017

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Footnotes

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The author would like to thank the New Zealand Law Foundation for funding this research, Liz Fisher, Brian Preston and Alison Young for their generous comments on an earlier version of this paper, and contributors to the Environmental Law section at the 2015 SLS Conference for their thoughtful questions. All views and errors are however the author's own.

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144. See 299 NZPD 689, 799.

145. Law Commission, above n 13. Other notable examples include the Maori Land Court and Maori Appellate Court, Employment Court, Family and Youth Court.

146. Electricity Commission, Environmental Protection Authority, Commerce Commission and Financial Markets Authority, etc.

147. Cane, above n 1, pp. 47–48

148. Wraith and Hutchesson, above n 13, 17.

149. Law Commission, above n 68, 34.

150. See Loughlin, above n 37, 448–449.

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152. Robson, above n 12, 328.

153. Loughlin, above n 37, 444–445; TRS Allan ‘The constitutional foundations of judicial review: conceptual conundrum or interpretative inquiry?’ (2002) 61 CLJ 87.

154. See Taggart, above n 110.

155. Or in the specific context, appeals on a point of law, RMA s 299.

156. Especially given High Court deference to expert institutions: Law Commission, above n 2, 221; Stark v Auckland Regional Council ; see also Elliot and Thomas, above n 1.

157. See general criticism of the ‘judicial review model’ in Frug, above n 108, 1352.

158. Resnik , above n 9, 10.

159. See J Raz ‘The institutional nature of law’ (1975) 38 MLR 489, 499.

160. L Jaffe Judicial Control of Administrative Action (Boston, MA: Little and Brown, 1965), 324.

161. C Harlow and R Rawlings Law and Administration (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 3rd edn, 2009), 1.

162. Summers, above n 137, 863.

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165. B Tamanaha, On the Rule of Law: History, Politics, Theory (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), 79.

166. Ibid, 79–80.

167. Akin to permitting and / or planning permission.

168. Resource Management (Simplifying and Streamlining) Amendment Act 2009 (NZ), ss 95A, 87C-I.

169. Resource Management (Forms, Fees, and Procedure) Amendment Regulations 2014 (NZ), sch 2.

170. LJ Newhook ‘Current and recent-past practice of the environment court concerning appeals on proposed plans and policy statements’ [2012] Resource Management Journal 13; LJ Newhook, Comparative costs of different NZ Resource Management hearing models: a discussion paper (Wellington: Environment Court of New Zealand, 2015); New Zealand Environment Court Annual Review by Members of the Court (Wellington: Environment Court of New Zealand, 2014).

171. LJ Newhook ‘Justice without barriers: technology for greater access to justice’ (Australasian Institute of Judicial Administration, Brisbane, 21–22 May 2015).

172. Eg Environment, above n 81, 10.

173. C de Secondat Baron de Montesquieu The Spirit of Laws, vol XI (Thomas Nugent tr, Place: Batoche Books, 2001), 173–174.

174. J Madison ‘Number XLVII’ in E H Scott (ed) The Federalist and other constitutional papers (Chicago, IL: Scott, Foresman and Co, 1898), p 266.

175. G Marshall Constitutional Theory (Oxford: Clarendon 1980), 100.

176. Cane, above n 1, p. 32.

177. J Waldron ‘Separation of powers in thought and practice’ (2013) 54 BCL Rev 433, 433–434.

178. Marshall, above n 175, p 100.

179. Eg Rivers-McCombs, above n 82; Environment, above n 81.

180. Robson, above n 12, 14. Robson's discrete metaphor is vehicular: ‘an antique and rickety chariot … for the conveyance of fallacious ideas’. See also I Jennings, The Law and the Constitution (London: University of London Press, 5th edn, 1969), 7–28 and Appendix I; Marshall, above n 175, ch 5.

181. EG Earl Halsbury and Viscount Halisham, Halsbury's Laws of England, vol 6 (London: Butterworth, 2nd edn, 1931), 385; A Venn Dicey, Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution (3rd edn, London: Macmillan 1889), 309, 322; Madison, above n 174, 268; Maitland, above n 16, 478; Henry Lord Viscount St John Bolingbroke, The Works of the Late Right Honourable Henry St John Lord Viscount Bolingbroke, vol 2 (Oliver Goldsmith ed, London: J Johnson 1809), 190–191; P Craig ‘Public law, political theory and legal theory’ [2000] PL 211, 218–219; L Claus ‘Montesquieu's mistakes and the true meaning of separation’ (2005) 25 OJLS 419; Cane, above n 1, 28; EL Rubin Beyond Camelot: Rethinking Politics and Law for the Modern State (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005).

182. O Pedersen ‘Modest pragmatic lessons for a diverse and incoherent environmental law’ (2013) 33 OJLS 103, 107.

183. Fisher, above n 11, 231.

184. Eg Falkner v Gisborne District Council (coastal defences v private property); Royal Forest and Bird Society of New Zealand Inc v Buller District Council [2006] NZRMA 193 (HC) (endangered fauna v coal); Bleakley v Environmental Risk Management Authority [2001] 3 NZLR 213 (HC) (Maori cultural beliefs v genetic modification).

185. C Warnock ‘Understanding the objective: psychological effects in environmental decision-making ’ (2011) 24 New Zealand Universities Law Review 574.

186. Particularly property rights, see Falkner v Gisborne District Council.

187. E Fisher ‘Environmental law as ‘hot’ law’ (2013) 25 JEL 347, 351; see also T Aagaard ‘Environmental law as a legal field: an inquiry in legal taxonomy’ (2010) 95 Cornell L Rev 221, 256–257.

188. Elias, above n 105, 1.

189. OW Holmes ‘The path of the law’ (1897) 10 Harv L Rev 457, 465.

190. Fisher, above, n 11, 232.

191. Arthurs, above n 5, pp. 204.

192. Dryzek, above n 96, 56.

193. Farmer, above n 13, 198.

194. RJ Bollard ‘The important role of yown and country planning appeal boards’ [1973] New Zealand Law Journal 233, 234.

195. Chayes, above n 112

196. Ibid, 1307.

197. See text accompanying nn 45–53.

198. Chayes, above n 112, 1304.

199. E Fisher Risk Regulation and Administrative Constitutionalism (Oxford: Hart, 2007), 30 citing B Cook, Bureaucracy and Self Government: Reconsidering the Role of Public Administration in American Government (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996), 16.

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201. TRS Allan Law, Liberty and Justice: The Legal Foundations of British Constitutionalism (Oxford: Clarendon, 1994), 57.

202. Ibid, 53; see also Robson, above n 12, 333–336.

203. Cane, above n 28, 220.

204. E Scotford and J Robinson ‘UK environmental legislation and its administration in 2013 – achievements, challenges and prospects’ (2013) 25 JEL, 397–399.

205. Environmental Defence Society Incorporated v Marlborough District Council ; C Warnock ‘Reconceptualising the Role of the New Zealand Environment Court’ (2014) 26 JEL 507.

206. Environmental Defence Society Incorporated v Marlborough District Council , [127] .

207. E Fisher, B Lange and E Scotford Environmental Law: Text, Cases and Materials (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), 670.

208. E Scotford ‘Trash or treasure: policy tensions in EC waste regulation’ (2007) 19 JEL 367; HA Nash ‘The revised directive on waste: resolving legislative tensions in waste management?’ (2009) 21 JEL 139.

209. RMA, s 6 (b)–(e).

210. Davis, above n 140; R Somerville Submissions on: Striking the Balance – Appeal Processes – The Specialist Environment Court (A Review of the New Zealand Court System, New Zealand Law Commission, Wellington, 2002), 24.

211. Comptroller of Customs v Gordon & Gotch (NZ) Limited [1987] 2 NZLR 80 (HC), 93.

212. Warnock, above n 205, 510; Winstone Aggregates Ltd v Franklin District Council (NZEnvC Auckland A080/02, 17 April 2002).

213. Wakatipu Environmental Society Inc v Queenstown Lakes District Council [2000] NZRMA 59 (NZEnvC).

214. Cane, above n 1, pp. 12–13, referring to Jerome Franks' description.

215. S Jasanoff The Fifth Branch: Science Advisers as Policy Makers (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990), 12.

216. Chayes, above n 112, 1297.

217. Electricity Corporation of New Zealand Ltd v Manawatu-Wanganui Regional Council (unreported) W70/90, 29 October 1990 (PT) [95].

218. Turner v Allison [1971] NZLR 833 (CA), 843; for acknowledgment in different context see Jones (By Caldwell) v First Tier Tribunal [2013] UKSC 19, [2013] 2 AC 48.

219. Berlin, above n 96, 19.