WOTCH v VicForests

COURT OR TRIBUNAL

Supreme Court of Victoria

DATE FILED (OR FIRST HEARING DATE)

28/01/2020

LITIGATION TYPE

Project Approval - Adaptation

SUBJECT MATTER

Threatened species

REVIEW TYPE

Judicial review

SUMMARY

PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE — Interlocutory injunction — Whether serious question to be tried — Whether balance of convenience favours granting injunction — Timber harvesting of State forests — Whether bushfires affect application of Code of Practice — Threatened species of greater glider, powerful owl, sooty owl, smoky mouse and alpine tree frog.

The trial was heard in March and December 2022 and oral closing submissions in March 2023.

CASE DOCUMENTS

WOTCH v VicForests (No 2) [2020] VSC 99
Trial