Retired Court of Appeal Judge Tony Randerson QC has been appointed chair of a Resource Management Review Panel, to make recommendations on reforming the Resource Management Act 1991.

Other members of the panel will be appointed in coming months.

Mr Randerson became a barrister sole in 1989 and was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1996. He was appointed a judge of the HIgh Court in 1997 and to the Court of Appeal Judge in 2010. On his retirement in 2018 he was the longest sitting member of that court.