ON 22 AUGUST 2014, the ACT Supreme Court delivered Eastman v Director of Public Prosecutions (No 2) [2014] ACTSCFC 2
http://www.courts.act.gov.au/supreme/judgment/view/8380/title/eastman-v-director-public-prosecutions
The court ordered that the conviction of David Harold Eastman for the murder of Australian Federal Police assistant commissioner Colin Stanley Winchester on 10 January 1989 be quashed and that there be a new trial.
Sydney, Australia
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ON 22 AUGUST 2014, the Royal Commission into the Institutional Responses to Child Abuse published 42 submissions in response to its issues paper on victims of crime statutory compensation schemes.
http://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/submissions/895/issues-paper-7
Sydney, Australia
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ON 22 AUGUST 2014, the NSW Land and Environment Court delivered Sternhell v Warringah Council [2014] NSWLEC 1168.
http://www.caselaw.nsw.gov.au/action/PJUDG?jgmtid=173645
The court refused an appeal against the decision of Warringah Council to refuse consent for a Development Application seeking the demolition of existing structures and subdivision of land into four lots at Lantana Avenue Wheeler Heights.
Sydney, Australia
1300 00 2088
ON 22 AUGUST 1979, the High Court of Australia delivered Taylor v Taylor [1979] HCA 38; (1979) 143 CLR 1 (22 August 1979).
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth/HCA/1979/38.html
A husband failed to appear in family law proceedings in the Supreme Court of NSW due to a misunderstanding on the part of his legal representative. In his absence, the court made orders dissolving the marriage and transferring the matrimonial home to the wife. Once the husband became aware of the orders, he made an application to the newly established Family Court seeking variation of the Supreme Court orders to the effect that the matrimonial home be sold and the net proceeds be divided between he and his wife. On the day of the application, the wife’s legal representatives mistakenly attended the Family Law Division of the Supreme Court rather than the Family Court. In the absence of the wife, orders were made by Hogan J of the Family Court in accordance with the relief sought by the husband. The wife then appealed to the Full Court of the Family Court, who allowed the appeal ruling that Hogan J did not possess the statutory power to amend the Supreme Court’s orders.
The High Court allowed an appeal, ordering that the previous orders be set aside and that there be a re-hearing of the matter.
The High Court held that a court has an inherent jurisdiction to set aside orders where it is in the interests of justice to do so.
Sydney, Australia
1300 00 2088
ON 22 AUGUST 2014, the NSW Land and Environment Court delivered Landmark Group Pty Limited v Lane Cove Council [2014] NSWLEC 1187.
The court upheld an appeal against a decision of Lane Cove Council regarding a s96 modification of a Development Consent affecting the land at 15-21 Mindarie Street Lane Cove.
Sydney, Australia
1300 00 2088
ON 21 AUGUST 2014, the Local Government (State) Award 2014 was posted in the Industrial Gazette.
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ON 21 AUGUST 1992, the NSW Court of Appeal delivered Greiner v Independent Commission Against Corruption (1992) 28 NSWLR 125.
Sydney, Australia
1300 00 2088
ON THIS DAY in 2007, the Federal Court of Australia delivered Haneef v Minister for Immigration and Citizenship [2007] FCA 1273 (21 August 2007).
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth/FCA/2007/1273.html
Sydney, Australia
1300 00 2088
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