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Planning and environment law

Garrard Building Pty Ltd v Clarence Valley Council

The Court upheld a Class 1 appeal over a staged community title subdivision in Yamba, finding flooding, evacuation and climate-change risks were adequately addressed.

  • Urban release area subdivision
  • Community title development
  • Flood modelling and climate change
  • Stormwater management
  • Evacuation and life safety
  • Shelter in place
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Land law

Rance v Dempsey (No 5)

The Court appointed trustees for sale under s 66G of the Conveyancing Act, rejecting arguments based on an alleged quasi-proprietary spouse claim and pending Succession Act proceedings.

  • Co-ownership
  • Statutory trust for sale
  • Appointment of trustees for sale
  • Vacant possession
  • Potential interaction with family provision / spouse claim under succession act 2006 (nsw)
  • Statutory-trust-for-sale
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Planning and environment law

AB Horizon Developments Pty Ltd v Georges River Council

On a Class 1 development appeal, the Court upheld the appeal by agreement and granted consent for an eight-storey residential flat building at Beverley Park.

  • Development appeal
  • Conciliation conference
  • Development consent
  • Residential flat building
  • Planning controls
  • Costs thrown away
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Residential tenancies

Rouge v NSW Land and Housing Corporation

The Appeal Panel dismissed a tenant’s internal appeal about repair orders, holding the matters were properly heard together and there was no procedural unfairness.

  • Repairs to residential premises
  • Procedural fairness
  • Natural justice
  • Internal appeal
  • Leave to appeal
  • Jurisdiction
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Judicial bias

SunshineLoans Pty Ltd v Australian Securities and Investments CommissionCitation:[2026] HCA 8Before:Gageler CJ, Gordon, Edelman, Steward, Gleeson, Jagot, Beech-Jones JJDate:18 Mar 2026Case Number:B23/2025Read more

The High Court held that adverse credit findings at a liability stage did not, without more, justify recusal from the penalty stage for apprehended bias.

  • Reasonable apprehension of bias
  • Recusal of judge
  • Civil penalty proceedings
  • Apprehended-bias
  • Recusal
  • Civil-penalty-proceedings
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Administrative law

GXX v Office of the Children’s Guardian

The Tribunal affirmed the refusal of a working with children check, finding the applicant’s recent domestic violence history, ADVOs and limited rehabilitation showed a real risk to children.

  • Working with children check
  • Risk assessment
  • Domestic violence
  • Publication suppression order
  • Merits review
  • Working-with-children-check
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Civil procedure

Hunt Leather Pty Ltd v Transport for NSW [No 2]Hunt Leather Pty Ltd v Transport for NSW [No 2]Citation:[2026] HCA 4Before:Gageler CJ, Gordon, Edelman, Jagot, Beech-Jones JJDate:11 Mar 2026Case Number:S20/2025 , S21/2025Read more

The High Court allowed an application to recall and amend orders, correcting an obvious omission so the costs issue could be remitted.

  • Judgments and orders
  • Correction of errors
  • Discretionary powers
  • Civil-procedure
  • Judgments-and-orders
  • Correction-of-errors
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