R v Pacific Farms Developments Limited [2017] NZDC 29030 (19 December 2017)

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IN THE DISTRICT COURT AT WELLINGTON

CRI-2014-054-003234

[2017] NZDC 29030

THE QUEEN

v

PACIFIC FARMS DEVELOPMENTS LIMITED

Hearing:	19 December 2017
Appearances:	M Blaschke for the Crown S Baigent and C Stevens for the Defendant
Judgment:	19 December 2017

NOTES OF JUDGE C J THOMPSON ON SENTENCING

[1] For the reasons that I outlined yesterday at the sentence indication hearing, and that has been transcribed and has in fact arrived now for confirmation, the defendant, Pfdl (5) Limited, is convicted on that charge.

[2] The company will be fined $20,000. There will be an order under s 342 Resource Management Act 1991 that 90 percent of that fine is to be paid to the Manawatu-Wanganui Regional Council.

[3] There is to be an enforcement order in terms to be agreed with the Court requiring, among other actions, work to be done by the defendant company to the value of $20,000.

[4] The terms of that enforcement order are, as I say, to be confirmed with the Court, and I would ask that a draft be lodged with the Court as soon as convenient

R v PACIFIC FARMS DEVELOPMENTS LIMITED [2017] NZDC 29030 [19 December 2017]

and the Court then may have some perhaps wording issues that will require discussion with counsel, but I think that they will be relatively minor-looking towards perhaps the ease of enforcement and so on, as I see it from the draft.

C J Thompson District Court Judge