Imagine navigating a case involving land contamination and facing complex regulatory hurdles. No matter if you are an environmental and planning lawyer or a property or construction lawyer, you will be equipped with crucial insights on managing contamination risks, remediation strategies, and the latest regulatory updates. Enhance your expertise with practical advice to effectively handle contamination issues and confidently guide your clients.

Presenters

Alice Spizzo, Director, Alice Spizzo Advisory
Alice Spizzo specialises in Planning & Environmental Law. Alice has extensive experience in government and the development industry as a lawyer, executive and senior ministerial advisor including Chief-of-Staff and Executive Director responsible for policy and legislative reform. Alice Chairs the NSW Women’s Housing Company, a Community Housing Provider of housing and homelessness services for women. Alice is a Board Director of the Homes Tasmania Authority established by the Tasmanian Government to provide and manage housing in Tasmania and the Metropolitan Memorial Parks in NSW, responsible for the management of several cemeteries in NSW. She is also a NSW Government member of the Sydney East Regional Planning Panel.


Dean Stafford, Principal Environmental Scientist, Reditus Consulting
Dean is a founder & director of Reditus and has over 20 years of experience working in the contaminated land industry. Dean has completed numerous site investigations as well as the design, installation, maintenance and monitoring of site remediation systems. Dean has successfully and cost effectively remediated complex contaminated soil, groundwater and soil vapour at a wide range of industrial, commercial and residential sites, including development and government sites involving solvents, hydrocarbons, heavy metals, asbestos and PFAS.


Jennifer Hughes, Partner, Beatty Hughes & Associates
Jennifer has over 20 years’ experience in environment and planning law, assisting industry, developers and government to manage environment incidents and on-going compliance, obtain development consents and environmental licences and acquire and divest industrial and contaminated land. Jennifer is widely recognised as a leading advisor to the waste industry due to her in-depth understanding of issues unique to that sector. Jennifer was a partner at Baker & McKenzie before joining the firm. She is ranked in several directories as a leading environmental lawyer.


Jessica Baldwin, Senior Associate, Hunt and Hunt Lawyers
Jessica is an Accredited Specialist in Planning and Environment Law. Jessica was awarded the Lawyers Weekly 30 Under 30 Winner award in 2022 for the Native Title, Planning and Environment category. Jessica provides both advice and litigation support to private clients, land users, and NSW Government agencies on a variety of issues across the planning and environment space, predominately in the Land & Environment Court. Jessica assists clients with environment and planning law matters, including specific issues regarding land use, development, contamination, waste and circular economy, vegetation and biodiversity offsetting, fire regulation and bush fire planning, flood zoning and planning, heritage conservation, existing use rights, as well as sustainability and climate change. Jessica has a sound understanding of the NSW planning legislation and environmental planning instruments, including post-determination certificates, and the extensive planning pathways for private and Crown developments.


Breellen Warry, Partner, Maddocks
With over 18 years’ experience, Breellen specialises in all areas of planning and environmental law. Breellen advises local and State Government clients, in addition to a range of private sector clients, including within the development industry, waste and education sectors. As well as working in private practice in Sydney and London, she has worked as an inhouse counsel for a number of government agencies in NSW and in the UK, as well as being seconded to NSW Government agencies. Breellen also has a particular interest in waste regulation, contamination, biodiversity conservation, climate change, environmental markets, pollution and heritage matters. Breellen has been recognised in the Doyle's Guide as a Leading Planning & Development Lawyer – New South Wales since 2020 and in the 2021 and 2022 Editions of Best Lawyers for Planning and Environmental Law. She is recommended by the Legal 500 Asia Pacific (2023) Guide for her work in Native Title.