Caroona Coal Action Group Inc v Coal Mines Australia Pty Limited and Minister for Mineral Resources (No 4) [2010] NSWLEC 91

Land and Environment Court of New South Wales

CITATION : Caroona Coal Action Group Inc v Coal Mines Australia Pty Limited and Minister for Mineral Resources (No 4) [2010] NSWLEC 91

APPLICANT Caroona Coal Action Group Inc

PARTIES : FIRST RESPONDENT Coal Mines Australia Pty Limited

SECOND RESPONDENT Minister for Mineral Resources

FILE NUMBER(S) : 80003 of 2009

CORAM: Preston CJ

KEY ISSUES: PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE :- Disclosure and use of discovered document admitted into evidence - document confidential - undertaking given restricting inspection, disclosure and use to applicant's legal advisers only - proceedings concluded - applicant's legal advisers give notice of intention to disclose document to applicant and public - confidentiality orders sought restricting such disclosure and public inspection of document on court file - confidentiality orders made

Ansell Rubber v Allied Rubber Industries [1967] VR 37 British American Tobacco Australia Services Ltd v Cowell [2003] VSCA 43; (2003) 8 VR 571 Caroona Coal Action Group Inc v Coal Mines Australia Pty Limited and Minister for Mineral Resources (No 2) [2010] NSWLEC 1; (2010) 172 LGERA 25 Caroona Coal Action Group Inc v Coal Mines Australia Pty Limited and Minister for Mineral Resources (No 3) [2010] NSWLEC 59 CASES CITED: Faccenda Chicken v Fowler (1985) 6 IPR 155 Lansing Linde v Kerr (1990) 21 IPR 529 R v Waterfield [1975] 1 WLR 711 Seale Australia v Public Interest Advocacy Centre (1992) 36 FCR 111 The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd v The Magistrates' Court of Victoria [1999] 3 VR 231 The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd v The Magistrates' Court of Victoria [2000] 2 VR 346