An appeal court has rejected arguments by the proponent of a major infrastructure project that a residents group doesn't have the right to challenge its development consent.
A company ordered to provide a financial assurance 25 times greater than the amount it proposed has lost a Court of Appeal dispute over the powers of a lower court.
A court today found a residents group has the right to challenge the consent for one of Australia's largest freight terminals, on the grounds it would endanger a newly-listed threatened species.
A court has fined a Rio Tinto subsidiary $50,000 for a licence breach, but wasn't convinced by the regulator's arguments that the company was negligent.
A company has told the NSW Land and Environment Court it will be wound up, two years after another business with the same directors was deregistered ahead of receiving a fine.
In the first legal test of a key NSW water policy, an appeal court has ruled development consent for the expansion of a coal mine didn't satisfy its requirements.