Australia, June 16 -- New South Wales Land and Environment Court issued text of the following judgement May 16: 1. By Summons filed on 2 December 2024 the plaintiff, who is self-represented, seeks an order that proceedings between him and the defendant, presently before the Local Court at Tweed Heads, be transferred to the District Court pursuant to s 140(2) of the Civil Procedure Act 2005 (NSW) (CPA). 2. That application is opposed by the defendant. 3. The application was heard on 19 March 2...
Australia, June 16 -- New South Wales Land and Environment Court issued text of the following judgement May 16: 1. The prosecutor seeks an order that "if any expert witness is proposed to be called at the hearing by the prosecutor, a copy of each report by the witness that is relevant to the case" be served by 25 April 2025. 2. The defendant opposes that order on the grounds that: 1) The defendant will be prejudiced. 2) The defendant does not know the case it has to meet. 3) The prosecutor ...
Australia, June 16 -- New South Wales Land and Environment Court issued text of the following judgement May 16: 1. By motion supported by an affidavit of its solicitor Ms Hawley, the Council sought orders transferring these proceedings to the Land and Environment Court for hearing, there being related other proceedings on foot between them in that Court. This Court has power to make such an order under s 149B of the Civil Procedure Act 2005 (NSW). The parties have now agreed to the transfer and...
Australia, June 16 -- New South Wales Land and Environment Court issued text of the following judgement May 16: 1. HIS HONOUR: The hearing of this matter commenced before me on Monday 12 May 2025. Mr Kuhsun appeared for himself without legal representation or any other form of assistance. That fact, among many others, assumed great significance in the events that have now occurred. This is explained in more detail in what follows. 2. However, it is important at this point to observe that on Tu...
Australia, June 16 -- New South Wales Land and Environment Court issued text of the following judgement May 16: 1. On 2 July 2015, Nikolce (Nick) and Lena Kolevski (the first and second plaintiffs) exchanged standard form contracts for the sale of two residential properties in New South Wales with Timber Creek Holdings Pty Ltd (Timber Creek, the defendant). Nick and Lena were the vendors. Timber Creek was the purchaser. One of the properties was the Kolevskis' family home in Shell Cove. The oth...
CANBERRA, ACT, June 16 -- The Treasurer of Australia issued the following transcript: Note Subjects: MiddleEast conflict, oil price, global economy, reform roundtable, Santos takeover proposal, PM meeting with US President, women in economic leadership roles PatriciaKarvelas: I want to bring in the Treasurer, JimChalmers. And today marked the beginning of the appointment of new Treasury Secretary, JennyWilkinson. Treasurer, welcome to the program. JimChalmers: Thanks very much, Patricia. ...
Australia, June 12 -- New South Wales Land and Environment Court issued text of the following judgement on May 13: 1. I gave judgment in this matter on 31 March 2025. [1] I shall use the same abbreviations here. 2. I concluded that Management was entitled to judgment against Corporate and Mr Wilson for its claim for unpaid Monthly Fees and the Staff Payments, and that Management was entitled to its costs on a party/party basis under the indemnity in the CAR Agreement. The effect is to entitle ...
Australia, June 12 -- New South Wales Land and Environment Court issued text of the following judgement on May 13: 1. This decision concerns an application filed on 21 February 2025 by the Industrial Relations Secretary, on behalf of Fire and Rescue NSW, to vary the Crown Employees (Fire and Rescue NSW Tradespersons) Award 2022, to provide for an increase of 3% to salaries and salary-related allowances in the Award from 1 July 2024 and to vary a number of other terms of employment. 2. As I wil...
Australia, June 12 -- New South Wales Land and Environment Court issued text of the following judgement on May 13: 1. By way of application to this Tribunal dated 13 September 2023, the Applicant seeks administrative review of a decision to revoke the Applicant's category ABDGH firearms licence in accordance with section 24(2) of the Firearms Act 1996 (NSW) (the Act) and clause 20 of the Firearms Regulation 2017 (NSW) (the Regulation). 2. For the reasons below, I affirm the decision the subjec...
Australia, June 12 -- New South Wales Land and Environment Court issued text of the following judgement on May 13: 1. The appellant is the owner of lot 9 in a strata scheme in Sydney. The respondent is the owner's corporation (OC) in that scheme. 2. The appellant appeals from a decision which dismissed his application in the Tribunal in which he sought a variety of orders concerning unpaid contributions. He was also ordered to pay the OC's costs of those proceedings. He also appeals from that ...