Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005
Current version for 15 March 2013 to date (accessed 19 May 2013 at 11:46)
Part 59Rule 59.3

59.3   Commencement and parties

(1)  Judicial review proceedings are to be commenced by summons.
(2)  If a decision to be reviewed arose in the course of a dispute between parties, each party who is interested in maintaining the decision must be joined as a defendant.
(3)  If the proceedings seek to prohibit, injunct or mandate a step that has not been taken, each body or person who may be directly affected by the relief sought must be joined as a defendant.
(4)  The body or person responsible for a decision to be reviewed must be joined as a defendant, but not as the first defendant unless there is no other defendant.
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