Environment Protection Authority v CSR Ltd trading as CSR Woodpanels [2001] NSWLEC 41

Reported Decision : 114 LGERA 217

Land and Environment Court of New South Wales

CITATION : Environment Protection Authority v CSR Ltd trading as CSR Woodpanels [2001] NSWLEC 41 PROSECUTOR Environment Protection Authority PARTIES : DEFENDANT CSR Ltd trading as CSR Woodpanels FILE NUMBER(S) : 50080 of 1997 CORAM: Pearlman J KEY ISSUES: Practice & Procedure :- amendment - summons - continuous offence - limitation period - permanent stay of criminal proceedings - loss of evidence - delay - conduct LEGISLATION CITED: Environmental Offences and Penalties Act 1989 s 6(1), s 12, s 13 Attorney-General's Reference (No 1 of 1990) (1992) QB 630; Barron v Attorney General for New South Wales & Ors (1987) 10 NSWLR 215; Brammer v Deery Hotels Pty Ltd (1974) 22 FLR 276; Brownlie v State Pollution Control Commission (1992) 27 NSWLR 78; Cook v Cook (1923) 33 CLR 369; CSR Ltd v Environment Protection Authority (2000) 110 LGERA 334; Environment Protection Authority v CSR Ltd (1998) 101 LGERA 109; Environment Protection Authority v CSR Ltd (1999) 103 LGERA 161; Environment Protection Authority v CSR Ltd (Pearlman J, NSWLEC, 18 December 1997, unreported); Ex parte Wakefield (1927) 27 SR (NSW) 261; J Robins and Sons Ltd v Maloney (No 2) (1935) IR 155; Jago v The District Court of New South Wales & Ors (1989) 168 CLR 23; Johnson v Miller (1937) 59 CLR 467; CASES CITED: Jones v Lorne Saw Mills Pty Ltd (1923) VLR 58; R v Beckford (1996) 1 Cr App R 94; R v Evans (1999) VSC 489; R v Gajree (Court of Appeal, Criminal Division, 20 September 1994, unreported); R v Industrial Appeals Court Ex parte Barelli's Bakeries Pty Ltd (1965) VR 615; R v Johal & Ram (1973) 1 QB 475; R v Michael John T (United Kingdom Court of Appeal (Criminal Division), 27 March 2000, unreported); R v Oxford City Justices, Ex parte Smith (1982) 75 Cr App R 200; R v Tolmie (Hunt CJ, NSWCCA, 7 December 1994, unreported); R v West London Stipendiary Magistrate, Ex parte Anderson (1985) 80 Cr App R 143; R v Yuill (1993) 69 A Crim R 450; S v The Queen (1989) 168 CLR 266; The Queen v Glennon (1992) 173 CLR 593; Walsh v Tattersall (1996) 188 CLR 77; Walton v Gardiner (1993) 177 CLR 378 DATES OF HEARING: 02/03/2001; 05/03/2001; 06/03/2001 DATE OF JUDGMENT: 06/05/2001