James Gardner-Hopkins legal win overturned

James Gardner-Hopkins legal win overturned
James Gardner-Hopkins appears unlikely to be serving on any expert consenting panels any time soon. (Image: Supplied)
Oliver Lewis
An iwi authority that wanted to nominate disgraced lawyer James Gardner Hopkins to expert consenting panels appears to have been thwarted by a successful appeal. In a decision on Sept 1, Justice Forrie Miller of the court of appeal overturned an earlier high court decision on a judicial review brought by the Ngāti Paoa Trust Board.The trust board unsuccessfully nominated Gardner-Hopkins to serve on a fast-track consenting panel convened under post-covid legislation to consider an application for a retirement village in Riverhead, north Auc...

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