“Cynical” legal bids to block infrastructure neutered

The Government is stopping “cyncial” bids to block major infrastructure schemes with multiple legal challenges.
Current rules mean unarguable cases can be dragged through the courts three times – causing years of delay and hundreds of millions of costs to projects.
Primary legislation will be changed so that where a judge in an oral hearing at the High Court deems the case Totally Without Merit, it will not be possible to ask the Court of Appeal to reconsider.Prime Minister Kei