NSW Caselaw
Land and Environment Court of New South Wales
CITATION : Parkesbourne-Mummel Landscape Guardians Inc v Minister for Planning and Ors [2009] NSWLEC 155
PLAINTIFF Parkesbourne/Mummel Landscape Guardians Inc FIRST DEFENDANT Minister for Planning PARTIES : SECOND DEFENDANT Director-General, Department of Planning THIRD DEFENDANT Epuron Pty Limited FOURTH DEFENDANT Gullen Range Wind Farm Pty Ltd
FILE NUMBER(S) : 41288 of 2008
CORAM: Pain J
KEY ISSUES: COSTS :- application to discontinue proceedings by plaintiff - whether plaintiff's costs payable by the Minister and Director-General on an indemnity basis or otherwise - plaintiff claimed in summons that wind farm project not a critical infrastructure project - project approved by the Minister on basis that project not critical infrastructure - whether plaintiff commenced proceedings prematurely - whether failure by plaintiff to seek interlocutory relief - whether plaintiff successful in litigation - whether Minister's decision to approve project a supervening event - whether failure by the Minister and Director-General to act as a model litigant
Civil Procedure Act 2005 s 98 LEGISLATION CITED: Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 Part 3A, s75C, s75H, s75I, s75J Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 r 12.1, r 42.19
Australiawide Airlines Ltd v Aspirion Pty Ltd [2006] NSWCA 365 Bitannia Pty Ltd v Parkline Constructions Pty Ltd [2009] NSWCA 32 Colgate Palmolive Company v Cussons Pty Ltd (1993) 46 FCR 225 Fordyce v Fordham (2006) 67 NSWLR 497 Gray v The Minister for Planning (2006) 152 LGERA 258 CASES CITED: Kiama v Grant (2006) 143 LGERA 441 Melbourne Steamship Co Ltd v Moorehead (1912) 15 CLR 333 One.Tel Ltd v Commissioner of Taxation (2000) 101 FCR 548 Parkesbourne/Mummel Landscape Guardians Inc v Minister for Planning [2009] NSWLEC 101 Ray Fitzpatrick Pty Ltd v Minister for Planning (No 5) [2008] NSWLEC 183 Re Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs; Ex parte Lai Qin (1997) 186 CLR 622 SCI Operations Pty Ltd v Commonwealth of Australia (1996) 69 FCR 346
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