AQC Dartbrook Management Pty Ltd v Minister for Planning and Public Spaces

• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Joinder of parties
  3. › Joinder in Land and Environment Court proceedings
  4. › Conciliation conference under s 34 Land and Environment Court Act 1979
  5. › Whether intervenor raising jurisdictional issue is a necessary party
  6. › Whether joinder necessary to determination of all matters in dispute
  7. › Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 (NSW), r 6.24
• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Joinder of parties
  3. › Source of power for joinder
  4. › Whether s 8.15(2) Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 available for appeal under s 75W(5)
  5. › Transitional provisions
  6. › Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 (NSW), ss 8.15(2), 75W(5)
• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Amicus curiae
  3. › Distinction between joinder as party and participation as amicus
  4. › Whether alternative mechanisms short of joinder available to address jurisdictional concerns
• 1. Environmental Law
  2. › Modification of development consent
  3. › Power to amend modification application
  4. › Whether express or implied power exists to amend application to modify development consent
  5. › Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 (NSW), ss 75W, 4.55, 4.56
  6. › Civil Procedure Act 2005 (NSW), s 64

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