Local Government Mutual Funds Trustee Limited v Napier City Council - SC 103/2022 - SC 103/2022

Timestamps:
Appellant’s submissions: 1:35
Respondent’s submissions: 1:51:10
Appellant’s reply submissions: 2:54:45

Case details

• Local Government Mutual Funds Trustee Limited v Napier City Council - SC 103/2022

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  • Local Government Mutual Funds Trustee Limited v Napier City Council - SC 103/2022 (Recorded, 27 April 2023)

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  • MR [2023] NZSC 97 (PDF 259 KB)

  Summary

  Civil Appeal

  Result

  A The application for leave to appeal is granted (Napier City Council v Local Government Mutual Funds Trustee Ltd [2022] NZCA 422).
  B The approved question is whether the Court of Appeal was correct:
  (a) in its interpretation of exclusion 13(a) of the Protection Wording; and
  (b) in its consequent finding that the claim by the respondent in relation to its liability to owners of apartments in the Waterfront Apartments complex was excluded by exclusion 13(a) only to the extent that the respondent’s liability arose directly or indirectly out of, or in respect of, weathertightness defects.
  21 December 2022
  
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  A The appeal is dismissed.
  B The appellant must pay the respondent costs of $25,000 plus usual disbursements. We allow for second counsel.
  1 August 2023

  Date of Hearing

  27 April 2023

  Judges

  Winkelmann CJ, O'Regan, Ellen France, Williams and Kós JJ

  Case Synopses

  • Hearing date 27 April 2023 (PDF 557 KB)

  Submissions from counsel

  • Hearing 27 April 2023 Appellant Submissions (PDF 7.9 MB)
  • Hearing 27 April 2023 Appellant oral outline (PDF 318 KB)
  • Hearing 27 April 2023 Respondent Submissions (PDF 681 KB)
  • Hearing 27 April 2023 Respondent Oral Outline (PDF 779 KB)
  • Hearing 27 April 2023 Joint Chronology (PDF 347 KB)

  Hearing Transcripts

  • Hearing date 27 April 2023 (PDF 550 KB)

  Related Documents

  High Court decision — NAPIER CITY COUNCIL v LOCAL GOVERNMENT MUTUAL FUNDS TRUSTEE LIMITED [2021] NZHC 1477 [21 June 2021]

  Court of Appeal decision — NAPIER CITY COUNCIL v LOCAL GOVERNMENT MUTUAL FUNDS TRUSTEE LIMITED [2022] NZCA 422 [8 September 2022]

  Leave judgment - leave granted — LOCAL GOVERNMENT MUTUAL FUNDS TRUSTEE LTD v NAPIER CITY COUNCIL [2022] NZSC 152 [21 December 2022] (PDF 142 KB)

  Substantive judgment — LOCAL GOVERNMENT MUTUAL FUNDS TRUSTEE LIMITED v NAPIER CITY COUNCIL [2023] NZSC 97 [1 August 2023] (PDF 308 KB)