The High Court has allowed safety regulators to push ahead with legal court action against a now-collapsed adventure tourism company, which was charged after an Australian woman suffered a fatal injury on one of its quad bike safaris.
Riverland Adventures was charged with breaching the Health and Safety in Employment Act after Chelsea Callaghan suffered a fatal injury on a quad bike safari in October 2012.
The 38-year-old from Melbourne was on life support for 10 days before she died, after coming off a quad bike near Port Waikato on a Riverland Adventures tour.
The maximum fine which can be imposed on the company upon conviction is $250,000.
Riverland Adventures has since gone into liquidation, and in their first report liquidators say the company cannot pay for a lawyer, nor for any "contingent claims that may arise".