Minister for the Environment & Heritage v Greentree [2003] FCA 857

Environmental and Planning Law Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 476-477

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1. The judgment was delivered on 8 August 2003 and is available at http://www.austlii.edu.au. The law and facts in this casenote are stated as at 20 November 2003. "Ramsar wetlands" are wetlands listed under the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance especially as Waterfowl Habitat done at Ramsar, Iran, 2 February 1971 (Ramsar Convention).
2. In relation to the EPBC Act generally, see http://www.deh.gov.au/epbc/
3. Bates G, Environmental Law in Australia (5th ed, Butterworths, 2002).
4. American Cyanamide v Ethicon Ltd [1975] AC 396
5. Castlemaine Tooheys Ltd v South Australia (1986) 161 CLR 148 at 153.
6. Booth v Bosworth [2000] FCA 1878 at [30] per Spender J.
7. In this case, s 16(1) of the EPBC Act. In relation to civil penalty provisions generally, see ss 481-486D of the EPBC Act.
8. The first respondent is also currently being prosecuted under the Native Vegetation Conservation Act 1997 (NSW) for the clearing of native vegetation. See Director-General of the Department of Land & Water Conservation v Greentree [2002] NSWLEC 53; [2002] NSWLEC 102; [2003] NSWCCA 31. No trial date has yet been set for those prosecutions.
9. McGrath C, "Casenote: Booth v Bosworth" (2001) 18 EPLJ 23
10. McGrath C, "The Fraser Island Dingo Case" (2001) 18 EPLJ 269
11. McGrath C, "The Flying Fox Case" (2001) 18 EPLJ 540.
12. Note also Mees v Roads Corporation [2003] FCA 306.
13. Unreported, Darwin Magistrates Court 2002 and Cairns Magistrates Court 14 May 2003.