Court of Appeal hearing in Wellington last week 15 April 2026
20 April 2026
Good morning all, apologies for taking a few days to share an update of our hearing in the Court of Appeal Wellington last week.
We were extremely lucky with the weather, a perfect sunny day with not a breath of wind visitors to Wellington are often welcomed with.
Anna Radford from Honour the Maunga Mt Albert / Owairaka joined me, their group HTM have been a good supporting friend to Respect Mt Richmond Ōtāhuhu since both our communities have been confronted by the prospect of losing all of our exotic trees in a mass clear fell at our respective local parks and reserves.
The hearing went very well, the panel of 3 judges were well prepared, having read all of the judicial review documents from our hearing in the High Court which set the resource consent aside, and were well versed in the synopsis submissions for the hearing before them.
Our barrister did a grand job, we are very lucky to have him representing us.
We now wait quietly for their decision, it could take some time.
We thank everyone who has supported us enabling us to continue our court battle. We couldn’t have got this far without you!
Please continue to share our Givealittle link, as we still have a way to go before we reach our goal, enabling us to pay our legal costs in full.
This case is very important to other communities in Auckland such as Mount Eden, Three Kings, and Mount Roskill, who have many exotic trees that are planned to be felled in the future.
Ngaa mihinui ki a koutou, Naa Shirley Waru
