NSW Government Bulletin - 6 August 2014

On 29 July 2014, the NSW Supreme Court handed down its decision of Duncan v ICAC McGuigan v ICAC Kinghorn v ICAC Cascade Coal v ICAC [2014] NSWSC 1018, which was an appeal from the findings and recommendations of the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) in its report in relation to Operation Jasper. Operation Jasper was the inquiry relating to corrupt conduct in the Mount Penny mining tenement and the grant of an exploration licence over that tenement.

The proceedings were brought by Mr Travers Duncan, Mr John McGuigan, Mr John Atkinson, Mr Richard Poole and Mr John Kinghorn and their associated companies. The individuals each challenged the findings of corrupt conduct made against them by the ICAC, and sought declarations that the findings be nullified. The corporate plaintiffs sought declarations that the recommendations made by the ICAC in its third report be nullified.