by Environmental Justice Australia | Jul 5, 2012 | Democratic Rights
The EDO is acting for Lisa Caripis, who attended a protest at the Hazelwood Power Station in 2010, where she experienced being filmed by the Victoria Police. The Victoria Police have since retained the footage – although the protest was peaceful, and no arrests...
by Environmental Justice Australia | May 15, 2012 | Biodiversity, Forests
On 14 March 2012, environment group MyEnvironment lost their Supreme Court case against Vicforests. The Court rejected their argument, made on their behalf by their lawyers Bleyer Lawyers and barristers Kristin Walker and Emrys Nekvapil, that Vicforests...
by Environmental Justice Australia | Mar 20, 2012 | Biodiversity, Forests, Victorian biodiversity laws
Last Wednesday the Supreme Court handed down its decision in the case of MyEnvironment v VicForests. MyEnvironment, a Central Highlands–based environment group, were seeking to halt logging in Toolangi forest on the basis that it was habitat to the Leadbeater’s...
by Environmental Justice Australia | Mar 15, 2012 | Biodiversity, Forests, Victorian biodiversity laws
The Supreme Court yesterday decided in the case of MyEnvironment Inc v VicForests that the law did not protect an area of Leadbeater’s Possum habitat in Toolangi from logging by VicForests. A copy of the Court’s decision can be found here. The...
