PLANNING UPDATE (AUSTRALIA)
The State Development, Infrastructure and Industry Committee
announced yesterday that it has tabled its Report No. 13 -
Sustainable Planning and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2012.
We made submissions to the Committee about the proposed reforms
and were invited to give evidence before the inquiry on 25 October
2012 (
transcript). One of our key submissions related to the proposal
to have costs of proceedings follow the event (essentially, the
loser pays). In considering these submissions, the Committee has
recommended that the words 'but follow the event, unless the
court orders otherwise', be removed from the Bill. We will
provide a detailed commentary on the submissions and the report
shortly. The full report is available on the Committee's
website, as well as the
Online Tabled Papers database.
