Environment Protection Authority v Riverina (Australia) Pty Ltd

Land and Environment Court New South Wales Medium Neutral Citation: Environment Protection Authority v Riverina (Australia) Pty Ltd [2014] NSWLEC 190 Hearing dates:1, 3 December 2014Decision date: 05 December 2014 Jurisdiction:Class 5Before: Pepper J Decision: Summons bad for duplicity. Prosecutor to elect to avoid the duplicity or summons to be struck out. Catchwords: ENVIRONMENTAL PROSECUTION: whether summons bad for duplicity with respect to manner of contravention and scope of pollutant as particularised by the prosecution - applicable legal principles - whether, if duplicitous, appropriate remedy strike out or prosecutor to make election - summons duplicitous - prosecutor to elect to avoid the duplicity or summons to be struck out. Legislation Cited: Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997, ss 120, 257 Protection of the Environment Operations (General) Regulation 2009, Sch 5 Cases Cited: Brownlie v State Pollution Control Commission (1992) 27 NSWLR 78 Chapman v R [2013] NSWCCA 91; (2013) 232 A Crim R 500 Coco v R [1994] HCA 15; (1994) 179 CLR 427 CSR Ltd (t/as CSR Woodpanels) v Environmental Protection Authority [2000] NSWCCA 373; (2000) 110 LGERA 334 Environment Protection Authority v Bathurst City Council (1995) 89 LGERA 79 Environment Protection Authority v Brazel [2002] NSWLEC 7; (2002) 119 LGERA 72 Environment Protection Authority v Brazel (No 2) [2002] NSWLEC 26 Environment Protection Authority v Snowy Mountains Engineering Corp Pty Ltd (1994) 83 LGERA 51 Environment Protection Authority v Truegain Pty Ltd [2012] NSWLEC 41; (2012) 186 LGERA 412 Environment Protection Authority v Truegain Pty Ltd [2013]...