Ronald Crosby

LLB (Hons)

Ronald Crosby gained an LLB Hons at Auckland University and was admitted to the Bar in 1971. He spent the first 30 years of his working life as a court lawyer and was involved in a full range of litigation work in all courts, including the Court of Appeal, with particular involvement in town and country planning, the Water and Soil Conservation Act 1967, and the Resource Management Act 1991. This work related to the establishment of forestry, tourism, viticulture, and aquaculture industries in Malborough. He has also acted for Te Tau Ihu iwi and the Wakatu Incorporation in a wide range of resource management cases before councils and the Environment Court, and he was involved in the Tribunal’s Te Tau Ihu (Wai 785) inquiry.

Mr Crosby currently sits as a Hearings Commissioner for several South Island authorities under the Resource Management Act considering a wide range of applications on coastal and land-based issues, water resource and subdivision issues, and particularly cases involving iwi issues. In addition, he has increasingly been occupied with writing New Zealand historical and military books over the last decade. Some of his publications are The Musket Wars: A History of Inter-Iwi Conflict, 1806–1845, Gilbert Mair – Te Kooti’s Nemesis, NZSAS: The First Fifty Years, a chapter on the resource management experiences of the Te Tau Ihu iwi for Whenua: Managing our Resources, and a chapter on Gilbert Mair for Maori Treasures of New Zealand: Ko Tawa.

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