Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD hour in Substantive Law
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
* This interactive online recording includes questions and quizzes requiring critical thinking about the topics, so you have no annual limits to the number of points/hours you can claim with this format of learning. Please verify with your CPD rules
Chair
Dominic McGann, Partner, McCullough Robertson; Leading Native Title Lawyer, Project Proponent Representation, Doyle’s Guide 2021
Future Acts, the ‘Right to Mine’ and Infrastructure Facilities
- Review of recent case law in relation to what is and is not a ‘right to mine and the implications for the energy and resources industries
- Consideration of what amounts to a ‘future act’, a ‘right’ to mine’ and an ‘infrastructure facility’
- Review of the ‘infrastructure facility’ process contained in section 24MD(6B) of the Native Title Act
Presented by William Oxby, Partner, Johnson Winter & Slattery; Leading Lawyer for Native Title, Chambers Asia Pacific Legal 2021-2023
Presenters
Dominic McGann, Partner, McCullough Robertson
Dominic McGann has over 25 years experience as a general commercial lawyer. He specialises in government advisory work, resources and infrastructure. As an element of his practice, Dominic is an acknowledged authority on native title and cultural heritage matters. Prior to joining McCullough Robertson, he had held prominent positions with various Queensland Government agencies. In terms of his current practice in the resources and infrastructure areas, it draws on his mining, infrastructure, government and commercial legal skills (including land tenure issues, native title, cultural heritage, safety, environmental compliance, infrastructure delivery and contract performance). He has experience in the following sectors: public sector, mining, water, statutory authorities, Indigenous communities, transport, energy, and agribusiness. Dominic has acted for various coal, base metals and other mining operations, petroleum and gas operators, water entities, electricity entities, ports, State Government agencies, foreign governments, as well as sugar and timber entities and various pastoral companies.
William Oxby, Partner, Johnson Winter & Slattery
William Oxby has practised in the area of native title since 1997. William has worked for 2 years in a native title representative body in Queensland and for the Commonwealth Attorney General in the Native Title Task Force. William has also worked for another 'top tier' law firm for 10 « years before joining Freehills in 2010. William's specialises in assisting energy, resource and infrastructure clients manage their relationships with indigenous communities. Whilst a large part of that work relates to native title and Aboriginal cultural heritage, William also specialises in land access issues more generally as well as the procurement of mining tenement, petroleum tenements and environment and planning approvals.
