Environment Protection Authority v Pannowitz [2006] NSWLEC 219

Land and Environment Court of New South Wales

CITATION : Environment Protection Authority v Pannowitz [2006] NSWLEC 219

PROSECUTOR: Environment Protection Authority PARTIES : DEFENDANT: Kenneth Warren Pannowitz

FILE NUMBER(S) : 50024 of 2004

CORAM: Lloyd J

Contempt :- non-compliance with publication order – interference with the course of justice – scandalising the Court – aiding and abetting an offence commited by another – punishment of a non-party KEY ISSUES: Practice & Procedure: - charge of contempt against a non-party – separate proceedings should be brought against the non-party

Environmental Offences and Penalties Act 1989 s 14 (repealed) LEGISLATION CITED: Land and Environment Court Act 1979 ss 41, 67, Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997 ss 143(1), 250(1)(a)

Attorney-General for New South Wales v Mayas Pty Ltd (1988) 14 NSWLR 342; Attorney-General for New South Wales v Mundey [1972] 2 NSWLR 887; Attorney-General v Punch Ltd [2003] 1 AC 1046; Australian Meat Industry Employees' Union v Mudginberri Station Pty Ltd (1986) 161 CLR 98; Bell v Stewart (1920) 28 CLR 419; Re Colina; Ex parte Torney (1999) 200 CLR 386; Environment Protection Authority v Steepleton Pty Ltd [2005] NSWLEC 175; Environment Protection Authority v Waight (2003) 125 LGERA 399; Gallagher v Durack (1983) 152 CLR 238; Giorgianni v The Queen (1985) 156 CLR 473; CASES CITED: Harkianakis v Skalkos (1997) 42 NSWLR 22; Hoser v R; Ex parte Attorney-General (Vic) [2003] VCSA 194; John Fairfax & Sons Pty Ltd v McRae (1955) 93 CLR 352; Lane v The Registrar of the Supreme Court of New South Wales (1981) 148 CLR 245; Nationwide News Pty Ltd v Wills (1992) 177 CLR 1; Prothonotary v Hirata [2000] NSWSC 106; R v Brett [1950] VLR 226; R v David Syme & Co Ltd [1982] VR 173; R v Dunbabin; Ex parte Williams (1935) 53 CLR 434; R v Hoser [2001] VSC 443; Witham v Holloway (1995) 183 CLR 525;