VicForests v Environment East Gippsland Inc

• 1. Environmental Law
  2. › Timber harvesting in State forests
  3. › Conservation of biodiversity
  4. › Precautionary principle
  5. › Whether timber harvesting operations complied with precautionary principle requiring surveys and conservation measures for threatened glider species
  6. › Code of Practice for Timber Production 2014, ss 2.2.2.2, 2.2.2.4
  7. › Sustainable Forests (Timber) Act 2004, s 45
• 1. Environmental Law
  2. › Timber harvesting in State forests
  3. › Statutory construction
  4. › Code of Practice for Timber Production 2014
  5. › Whether s 2.2.2.4 requires identification of biodiversity values beyond compliance with Management Standards Table 13
  6. › Whether precautionary principle in s 2.2.2.2 requires comprehensive pre-harvest surveys of entire coupes
• 1. Equity
  2. › Injunctions
  3. › Prohibitory injunctions
  4. › Environmental protection
  5. › Whether necessary equity established to attract injunctive relief
  6. › Whether injunctions limited to what was necessary to avoid unlawfulness
  7. › Whether declarations and injunctions impermissibly imprecise and uncertain
• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Procedural fairness
  3. › Whether party denied procedural fairness by form of injunctive relief differing from that sought by either party
  4. › Whether judge entitled to formulate relief based on evidence at trial

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