Environment and Planning Law
Issues covered include: development standards, climate litigation, compulsory land acquisition, waste management
Description
What do the latest changes in environment and planning law mean for you? Hear from our stellar line-up of experts, including the Minister for Planning and Public Spaces, as they unpack the critical issues and challenges in environmental and planning law and provide the timely and practical insights that have made this a can’t miss event every year.
Attend and earn 4 CPD units in Substantive Law
Chair: Alice Spizzo, Partner, Landerer & Company Legal Services Pty Limited
9.00am to 10.00am: Development Standards & Scandals: Court Practice and Procedure
- Preparing Clause 4.6 requests
- Overcoming jurisdictional hurdles
- Recent decisions and their significance: how has the test developed?
Presented by Andrew Pickles SC, Martin Place Chambers; Recommended Planning & Environment Senior Counsel, Doyle’s Guide 2019
10.00am to 11.00am: Climate Litigation: Recent Cases and Looking Forward
- Review of recent litigation in the Land and Environment Court addressing climate change issues
- Analysis of Rocky Hill Case decision
- Discussion of pending climate litigation on the horizon
Presented by Robert White, Barrister, 12 Wentworth Selbourne Chambers and Natasha Hammond, Barrister, Martin Place Chambers; Recommended Planning & Environment Barrister, Doyle’s Guide 2018
11.00am to 11.15am Morning Tea
11.15am to 12.15pm: Emerging Issues in Compulsory Land Acquisition
- Update on legislation and acquisition powers
- Compensation claims for compulsory acquisition of land
- Land valuation and compulsory acquisition
Presented by Andrew Beatty, Partner, Beatty Legal; Recommended Environment & Climate Change Lawyer, Doyle’s Guide 2019 and Marlon Shou, Senior Associate, Beatty Legal
12.15pm to 1.15pm: Waste Management in 2020
- What’s happening in the world of waste?
- Policy updates and enforcement
- Overview of recent cases
Presented by Breellen Warry, Partner, Holding Redlich
Venue
Cliftons Sydney
Level 13, 60 Margaret St
Sydney 2000
NSW
Australia