*Original Content was created in November 2024
Chair
Adam Sharpe, Barrister, Francis Burt Chambers
Industrial Operations and Urban Development: Resolving Land Use Conflict
- Interplay between planning and environmental laws in significant projects
- The use of planning conditions to address environmental issues
- Industrial buffer policy
- Environmental licence conditions of industrial operations
- Urban expansion and the need for infill development
- Pollution control: the complexities of enforcement
- The broad enforcement powers of the Department of Water and Environment Regulation
- Community engagement by the regulator and the scope of legitimate investigation
- Private law remedies: nuisance and negligence
- Judicial review
Presented by Glen McLeod, Principal Director, McLeod Fisher, Hamdorf; recognised as leading Planning and Environment Lawyer –Western Australia, Doyle’s Guide 2024
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD hour in Substantive Law
This program is based on WA legislation
Presenters
Adam Sharpe, Barrister, Francis Burt Chambers
Adam Sharpe is a barrister at Francis Burt Chambers and has a broad public law practice spanning constitutional and administrative law, judicial review applications, planning appeals, regulatory prosecutions, native title, employment law and contracting with government. Adam has been practising as a barrister since 2013. Adam began his legal career at the State Solicitor’s Office in the role of Professional Assistant to the Solicitor General for Western Australia. He was later an Associate at the High Court of Australia. Adam has a Master of Laws from Yale University.
Glen McLeod, Principal Director, McLeod Fisher & Hamdorf
Glen McLeod, Principal of McLeod Fisher & Hamdorf, has 45 years of experience in environmental, town planning, and development law. After holding senior positions in major law firms in Perth and London, he established his independent firm in 2012. McLeod is recognized as a preeminent expert by Doyles Guide. He has served on the WA Environmental Protection Authority and the International Bar Association’s Council for Energy, Environment, Resources, and Infrastructure Law. Additionally, he’s a member of the WA Law Society’s Environment Town Planning and Local Government Committee, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and the recipient of the 2016 WA Law Society’s Lawyer of the Year Award. He also teaches as an Adjunct Professor at Murdoch University and edits significant legal publications.
