Two landmark court wins for our forests in two weeks
The Supreme Court of Victoria has handed down two landmark judgments, both finding state-owned logging agency VicForests has logged illegally.
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The Supreme Court of Victoria has handed down two landmark judgments, both finding state-owned logging agency VicForests has logged illegally.
July 26, 2022 Wildlife of the Central Highlands (WOTCH) will return to the Supreme Court tomorrow for the final hearing in the community group’s legal battle to protect forests home to threatened wildlife, from being logged in the wake of the catastrophic Black Summer bushfires. In January 2020, following the devastating bushfires which killed billions
The Premier and our representatives are failing us and our environment – introducing draft legislation which, if passed, would result in extreme penalties for concerned citizens who engage in legitimate political expression in Victoria’s forests.
Community group, Wildlife of the Central Highlands, is in the Supreme Court today, fighting to protect forests home to threatened wildlife from being torn down in the wake of the catastrophic Black Summer bushfires. The three-week trial, heard by the Honorable Justice Keogh, begins today in the Victorian Supreme Court. Several experts will be called
Today the High Court has declined to grant leave to community group Friends of Leadbeater’s Possum, to appeal their case to the High Court of Australia. This confirms Australia’s federal environment laws need urgent reform and are catastrophically failing wildlife already under threat of extinction. The decision allows VicForests to continue logging native forests with
Today, the Full Federal Court ordered VicForests to pay the costs of Friends of Leadbeater’s Possum in the case to protect threatened native possums from logging. The costs decision in the Possums Case was made in light of findings that the state logging agency breached Victorian law and its operations pose a major threat to
After three days in the Federal Court in Sydney, our legal team are heading home to await the outcome of the appeal.
The power of community is central to making our laws work for wildlife and the places we love.
In September 2020, we kicked off a project working on proposals to improve laws and governance around the Gippsland Lakes.
EJA lawyers defended forest activists in court for uncovering logging misconduct in the Kuark forest in East Gippsland