Altering a Planning Permit through Secondary Consent CASE NOTE Cook v Mornington Peninsula SC (Red Dot) [2017] VCAT 1129, Deputy President Dwyer EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Councils often give what is known as a ‘secondary consent’. This allows small changes to endorsed […]
Continue reading...Report on another year teaching mediation at Humboldt University in Berlin: This year as a visiting lecturer In late July and early August I taught at the 19th International Summer School on Dispute Resolution – Negotiation, Mediation, Arbitration. This is […]
Continue reading...Protection Works Notices Case Note Colonial Range v CES-Queen (BAB4 – Protection Works) [2017] VSC 317 (5 June 2017), Digby J A recent Victorian Supreme Court judgement provides useful guidelines concerning the protection works notices required for many building projects. […]
Continue reading...NewsFlash ~ Interpreting reservations of Crown land When the government reserves land for a public purpose through a Crown reservation,[1] the land is typically zoned with a public zone such as the Public Park and Recreation Zone (PPRZ). Once […]
Continue reading...Reflections on Mediation in Victorian Planning and Environment Law Having just returned from my time as a faculty member of the International Summer School on Alternative Dispute Resolution [Run jointly by Tulane University (New Orleans, USA) & Humboldt University (Berlin, […]
Continue reading...NewsFlash ~ Real Estate Agents’ Exclusive Authorities Engaging a Real Estate Agent in the sale of your property usually involves signing a standard form Exclusive Auction Authority or a Sole Agency Agreement. Agents often use the standard form produced by […]
Continue reading...Kellehers Australia’s recent work highlights the connections between the work of lawyers and surveyors. We value our links with the surveying profession, and our achievements show that these connections can be most useful to clients and fellow professionals. In 2016, […]
Continue reading...Case Note ~ Hamilton Finley Pty Ltd v Aojia Investment Pty Ltd [2017] VSC 319 (7 June 2017) Justice Elliott EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This case held that where a client of a real estate agent signs a standard form […]
Continue reading...Hubert Algie is an environment and planning lawyer at Kellehers Australia. He was awarded the VPELA Young Professional of the Year Award in 2016 to advance his research into Significant Social Effect within the planning permit process and consider how […]
Continue reading...In-House Memorandum Kellehers continues to tackle difficult and novel legal challenges. The intersection of planning and liquor licensing law is often fraught. Typically, the two regimes are kept separate. The Victorian Commission for Gambling and Liquor Regulation (the Commission) does […]
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