STS meanders to justify calling special meeting

Copy of Stop The Stadium group email as received:
From: Stop the Stadium Announcement list
Date: 11 October 2009 4:55:45 PM NZDT
To: sts mailout
Subject: [sts] Notice of special meeting, to be held at Pioneer Women’s Hall, 362, Moray Place. (near Dick Smith’s), on Sunday, 18th October, at 3:00 pm.
Reply-To: bevkiwi@hotmail.com
Notice of special meeting, to be held at [...]

D Scene – STS ordered to pay DCC !!

### D Scene 16-9-09
STS ordered to pay $9k (page 7)
Stop The Stadium has been ordered to pay Dunedin City Council $9740 by the High Court. The decision, released yesterday, dismissed STS’s application for costs and upheld costs sought by DCC.
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Undie issues (page 3)
By Dave Wood, acting editor
The [...]

On the matter of costs

Remember the gunfight at the OK Corral in Tombstone…
### ODT Online Wed, 2 Sep 2009
Stadium group seeks costs
By David Loughrey
Stop the Stadium’s lawyers are applying for $17,513 court costs from the Dunedin City Council following the organisation’s High Court challenge to the council’s funding of the Forsyth Barr Stadium. The council, in turn, is applying [...]

Basil Walker: “My purpose is not to stop the stadium.”

“It’s to stop Queenstown paying for the stupid thing.”
### ODT Online Fri, 28 Aug 2009
Case stalled over security issue
By David Loughrey
The only current legal challenge to the Forsyth Barr Stadium appears to be in limbo. Queenstown man Basil Walker said yesterday he had filed the necessary papers for security of costs so his appeal hearing [...]

STS posts Injunction Appeal documents

Injunction Appeal documents supplied today:
• STS Argument
• DCC Submission
• STS oral submission
• [DCC source file] Jim Harland and Athol Stephens Affidavits
• [Courts of New Zealand] Decision

D Scene: Delta, STS, DCC larks

### D Scene 26-8-09
Suite for some (page 1 headline)
Stop The Stadium has lost another legal fight, but it’s still throwing punches. One target of the-cash strapped group is Delta Utilities spending on a corporate suite. See page 5.
Thank you (page 3)
By Dave Wood, acting editor
Dunedin councillor Richard Walls was heard to ask at a recent [...]

Mayor Chin to publicise STS cost to Council

### ODT Online Tue, 25 Aug 2009
Group to face hefty legal bill
By David Loughrey
Stop the Stadium faces paying up to $17,000 in court costs, after its challenge to the Dunedin City Council’s funding of the Forsyth Barr Stadium was yesterday dismissed.
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### ODT Online Tue, 25 Aug 2009
$13m stadium funding ‘error’ revealed
By David Loughrey
Stop the [...]

STS response

STS statement re Appeal decision
STS is disappointed with the Wellington Court of Appeal result but pleased the action has forced the Dunedin City Council to admit that what they told the Christchurch High Court was wrong and the Council, NOT the Central Government, are making up the $13 million shortfall.
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STS Appeal thrown out +Decision +Affidavits

### Channel 9 Online August 24, 2009 – 7:46pm
Stop the Stadium get[s] bad news regarding its appeal
Stop the Stadium today received the news they didn’t want to hear regarding the appeal of their case, arguing that the Dunedin City Council breached the Local Government Act by going ahead with Forsyth Barr Stadium. The Court of [...]

STS v DCC – Court of Appeal

### ODT Online Wed, 19 Aug 2009
Stadium appeal delay questioned
By David Loughrey
Stop the Stadium’s counsel Len Andersen called yesterday for a contract to build the Forsyth Barr Stadium to be quashed so “proper consultation” could be held, despite being told the horse may have already bolted.
Read more

STS day in court

Counsel for DCC: “We are at the point of no return.”
### ODT Online Tue, 18 Aug 2009
Appeal court reserves decision on stadium
The Stop the Stadium group has gone to the Court of Appeal, seeking to quash a decision to go ahead with Carisbrook’s replacement, despite the piles already being in the ground for the [...]

Campbell Live: "Backers of the stadium are under intense pressure"

STS goes to the Court of Appeal in Wellington next week
Tuesday 18 August at 10am…
### TV3 Campbell Live Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:54
Construction of Dunedin’s new stadium underway – Video
After years of delays and in a decision that divided a community, work is finally underway at the new stadium in Dunedin – the first stadium [...]

STS: Date for Court of Appeal

Drawing the long bow…
### ODT Online Mon, 3 Aug 2009
Stop the Stadium gets date for hearing
By David Loughrey
Stop the Stadium president Bev Butler still hopes the Forsyth Barr Stadium can be stopped, despite construction proceeding at the Awatea St site. The group’s next court date has been set for 10am on August 18 at the [...]

D Scene behind with name calling

A slow news week at D Scene. Read What if? or ODT instead.
### D Scene 8-7-09 (page 3)
Got a complex
By Ryan Keen, Editor
Forsyth Barr Stadium at University Plaza. Mmmm. It doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue does it. You’d like to think those driving the controversial $198 million project didn’t spend too much coming up [...]

D Scene gives up or takes a break…

Slim pickings on the stadium in this week’s edition. As if there isn’t any scandal. Has Fairfax gone down to the 9-day fortnight already. Wake up D Scene.
D scene probably read this story in the ODT. Note D Scene’s lack of investigative research and primary interviews…
### D Scene 3-6-09 (page 9)
Stadium appeals
The controversial $198 million [...]

STS v DCC Court of Appeal 18 August

### ODT Online Tue, 2 Jun 2009
Hearing date for stadium
By Chris Morris
Stop the Stadium has announced a date for its pending Court of Appeal action against the $198 million Forsyth Barr Stadium.
Read more

D Scene, hello – construction stopped or starting?

We read the story. Can’t answer the question.
D Scene, straighten it out please.
### D Scene 20-5-09 (page 12)
Otago Stadium: City council in no rush to have appeal heard
Demo despite wrangles
By Michelle Sutton
Asbestos is being ripped out of buildings on the Otago stadium site, while ongoing High Court wrangles threaten to stop work.
[Guess who...yep, Hall Bros]
In [...]

DCC's funding line continues…

### ODT Online Thu, 14 May 2009
Council will carry on with stadium
By David Loughrey
The Dunedin City Council plans to carry on with its funding of the stadium, despite the two court cases being taken against the project.
Read more
Stop the Stadium’s notice of appeal has been received by the Court of Appeal in Wellington. The case [...]

More on appeal to Court of Appeal

### ODT Online Sat, 9 May 2009
Group heads to Appeal Court
By Blair Mayston
In an 11th hour bid to block the construction of a stadium at Awatea St, the Stop the Stadium group has sought to have a High Court judgement overturned by the Court of Appeal.
Read more
CORRECTION: In the item, ODT says, “Ms Butcher declined [...]

Updated: StS to Court of Appeal

That’s all What if? can reveal for now. News came through earlier today. Cr Walls also alerted our site this evening. I guess we properly wait for things to pass into public domain via the REAL news . . . and as to what’s in the application documents.
Somebody had to get the money up front [...]