Oil giant Mobil has escaped a $10 million bill for the clean-up of a heavily contaminated area of Auckland's Wynyard Quarter after winning an appeal in the Supreme Court.
Publicly-owned Waterfront Auckland must now also pay Mobil close to $1 million in court costs for its failed attempt to get the oil company to foot the bill.
Mobil Oil leased two properties in Auckland's waterfront 'tank farm' for more than 50 years.
When Mobil's lease for the two sites ended in 2011, it was found the land they were on had been heavily contaminated.
While it was established the company was not solely responsible for contamination to the land - other oil companies as previous tenants and neighbouring tenants all contributed too - Waterfront Auckland claimed Mobil had to deliver the land in a completely "uncontaminated condition" at the end of its lease term.
The 5 Kiwi Judges presiding over this case should be sent to Invercargill, Gisborne,Whangarei or some other shiithole in New Zealand to work it out almost forgot Hamilton!
Marligator wrote: From what I have seen when the court awards costs against the initiator of the legal action (WaterFront Auckland in this case) it usually means they had a very flimsy case at best. If it is a close run thing then the courts often do not award costs either way and if the initiator is clearly correct they will often award costs on top of any penalties awarded against the defendant. So my take on this is that Waterfront Auckland did not really have a case against Mobil. Also Puggy those judges are not dumb people, it is not just 1 but 5 very senior judges who made this decision and they would have made a "informed" decision based on the full information given to them not just the little bits the media want us to hear. |
Southern_Jez wrote: You guys know you can read the full judgements of most cases that come out of the high court right? I know it will impact on your ability to go off half cocked and what not, but still ... http://www.courtsofnz.govt.nz/from/decisions/judgments |
Southern_Jez wrote: hahahaha seems like you post some facts and the thread dies ... (need a "5hit stirrer" emoticon) |
Southern_Jez wrote: hahahaha seems like you post some facts and the thread dies ... (need a "5hit stirrer" emoticon) |
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