Australia, Aug. 21 -- New South Wales Land and Environment Court issued text of the following judgement on July 21: 1. On 13 June 2025, I delivered the primary judgment in these proceedings: Davis Stack Capital Pty Ltd v Raj & Jai (Mudgee) Pty Ltd [2025] NSWSC 599 (Judgment). These reasons assume familiarity with the Judgment. 2. I directed the parties to provide short minutes of order containing the orders they proposed in relation to costs and any necessary explanation for those orders. 3. ...
Australia, Aug. 21 -- New South Wales Land and Environment Court issued text of the following judgement on July 21: 1. HER HONOUR: By motion filed on 8 July 2025, the plaintiffs (AMP) sought an order under s 5B(1) of the Evidence (Audio and Audio Visual Links) Act 1998 (NSW) that lay witness, Craig Dainton, give evidence at trial by audio visual link via his laptop from an Air BnB in Sheffield, United Kingdom, called "The Piggery". 2. The 28 defendants (the insurers) are legally represented in...
Australia, Aug. 21 -- New South Wales Land and Environment Court issued text of the following judgement on July 21: 1. TGTC (the Applicant) has applied to the Tribunal for a review of the decision made by the NSW Trustee and Guardian (the First Respondent) to sell her mother's house. In April 2021, the Guardianship division of the Tribunal made orders that the Applicant's mother (the Protected Person) be committed to the financial management of the First Respondent. The decision to sell the hou...
Australia, Aug. 21 -- New South Wales Land and Environment Court issued text of the following judgement on July 21: 1. These reasons determine an application (the application) made by the applicant filed on 22 April 2025 to amend his complaint in which he alleges various kinds of discriminatory conduct were engaged in by the respondent whilst he was a tutor at the university. The continuation of the final hearing of the matter has been set down for 8, 9 and 10 September 2025. There was a direct...
Australia, Aug. 21 -- New South Wales Land and Environment Court issued text of the following judgement on July 21: 1. This is an appeal from a decision of the Consumer and Commercial Division of the Tribunal involving residential premises in northern New South Wales. 2. Ms Martin (the landlord) rented the premises to Mr Hancock and Ms Cohen (the tenants) in early 2024. The tenants commenced proceedings in the Tribunal following the landlord's decision to turn off the electricity supply to the...
Australia, Aug. 21 -- New South Wales Land and Environment Court issued text of the following judgement on July 21: 1. By a Statement of Claim, filed on 24 February 2023, Jingsi Wang ("the plaintiff") brought proceedings against Haiyang Fan ("the defendant") for failing to repay a loan to the plaintiff of 10 Million RMB and breaching a promise to marry the plaintiff on condition that or in consideration for the plaintiff paying to the defendant the sum of $248,500. These monies were paid by the...
CANBERRA, ACT, Aug. 21 -- Murray-Darling Basin Authority issued the following news release: AGL in conjunction with River Murray Operations announced today that releases from Dartmouth Reservoir will be maintained for the purposes of Electricity Generation. The current discharge at Coleman's Gauge of 1700 ML/d or 1.62 M gauge height will be maintained until 12:00pm Monday 25/08/2025 This release will be reassessed at this time to understand the next change. A further flow advice will be issu...
CANBERRA, ACT, Aug. 21 -- Murray-Darling Basin Authority issued the following news release: At any given time, water flowing through the river is destined for various uses, including irrigation, industry, communities, the environment, and meeting South Australia's flow entitlement. The exact mix of these flow components is determined by a number of factors including demand and water availability. Each month we provide an update showing flows in the River Murray system including the total volu...
CANBERRA, ACT, Aug. 21 -- The Treasurer of Australia issued the following transcript: Welcome to day 3. By my count we're into the 20th hour of the Economic Reform Roundtable. I wanted to begin today, the way I began yesterday and really say thank you again for the way that we collectively approached some really difficult issues yesterday. And especially pleasing to see the really genuine exchanges around some of the more difficult issues, including artificial intelligence yesterday. And the r...
Belconnen, ACT, Aug. 21 -- ACT Policing issued the following media release: A 23-year-old NSW woman has been charged after allegedly assaulting her partner during an altercation at a Canberra hotel. About 3:30am this morning (Thursday, 21 August 2025), police attended a hotel room in Forrest after the woman's partner called police. The woman allegedly punched her partner in the head and threw an empty glass bottle at him. The woman was arrested by police, and charged with assault occasioning...