Director-General, Department of Environment and Climate Change v Walker Corporation Pty Limited (No 3) [2010] NSWLEC 135

Reported Decision : 175 LGERA 160 [2010] ALMD 7113

Land and Environment Court of New South Wales

CITATION : Director-General, Department of Environment and Climate Change v Walker Corporation Pty Limited (No 3) [2010] NSWLEC 135

PROSECUTOR Director-General, Department of Environment and Climate Change PARTIES : DEFENDANT Walker Corporation Pty Limited

FILE NUMBER(S) : 50040 of 2008

CORAM: Pepper J

KEY ISSUES: PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE :- whether the Court has power to order a defendant's experts, absent consent, to jointly confer and report with the prosecution's experts in the course of preparation for a sentence hearing in its Class 5 jurisdiction - the Court does not have the power absent clear statutory words abrogating a defendant's right to silence

Criminal Procedure Act 1986 s 257 Evidence Act 1995 ss 4(2), 89 LEGISLATION CITED: Land and Environment Court Act 1979 s 41 Land and Environment Court Rules 2007 rr 5.1, 5.2 Supreme Court Rules 1970 Pt 75 rr 3J, 3K Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 r 2.1

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