Legal Media Releases
- Desperate Gunns settles for anything - November 26, 2009
- Federal Court dismisses lawyers’ challenge to pulp mill - April 09, 2009
- Law discharged from Gunns case - November 07, 2008
- Court rejects Gunns’ “fishing expedition” - November 07, 2008
- Another court blow for Gunns: company fails in legal bid to get personal details of conservationists - September 03, 2008
- Historic ACT anti-SLAPP legislation a step to protection of free speech in Australia - August 28, 2008
- Court gives green light for pulp mill legal challenge - April 30, 2008
Gunns Ltd today withdrew their case against two of the remaining six defendants in the infamous Gunns20 case.
Louise
Morris and Neal Funnell will not be paying any costs or damages to
Gunns after being sued for a combined $489,000 in 2004.
Late on Easter Thursday (9 April 2009), Justice Tracey dismissed Lawyers for Forests application to overturn the Federal government approval of Gunns’ pulp mill. The decision is disappointing, but not unsurprising as it further highlights the fundamental flaws in the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (EPBC) - Australia’s primary environment legislation.
Wilderness Society Tasmania Campaign Manager, and Gunns 20 ex-defendant, Geoff Law calls for state and national law reform to prevent large companies from pursuing community groups or individuals in court cases that cost many times more than the likely damages to be awarded.
The Victorian Supreme Court today rejected an appeal by Gunns Ltd seeking a raft of documents from conservationists in the long running “Gunns20” case arising out the campaign to protect Tasmania’s forests.
Timber giant Gunns Ltd today failed in its legal bid to force The Wilderness Society to provide contact addresses, phone numbers and other details of 128 conservationists. The bid was part of the long running Gunns20 case in the Victorian Supreme Court.
Legislation passed by the ACT Parliament last night protecting public participation signals a step towards basic guarantees for Australians’ free speech and right to protest, The Wilderness Society said today.
The Wilderness Society welcomes the Federal Court decision today to give the green light for a legal challenge to the Federal government approval of Gunns’ controversial pulp mill.
