Thursday, 19 February 2026
Chair
Emma Fleming, Principal Lawyer, Macpherson Kelly; Leading Town Planning & Development Lawyer NSW, Doyle’s Guide 2025
Licensing Reforms and Environmental Regulation: Modernising Compliance Across Jurisdictions
- Modernisation of the licensing system under the Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997
- What are the changes, why are they being implemented, and when?
- Implications for environment protection licence holders
- Trends in environmental licensing reform across Australian jurisdictions
- Aligning state-based reforms with national environmental objectives
Presented by Kara Mezinec, Partner, McCullough Robertson; Planning and Environment Law Rising Stars Doyle's Guide 2022 – 2023
Description
Attend and earn 0.5 CPD unit in Substantive Law
This program is based on NSW legislation
* 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
Presenters
Kara Mezinec, Partner, McCullough Robertson
Kara is a Partner in our Planning and Environment Team specialising in environmental, planning, local government and property law. She has over 13 years experience appearing as advocate across various jurisdictions in the Supreme Court and Land and Environment Court. Kara advises various state government agencies, state-owned corporations, local councils, private developers and energy companies. Kara’s broad and in depth knowledge of planning, environment, local government and property law allows her to provide strategic, practical and commercial advice resulting in high quality and cost effective results for her clients.
Emma Fleming, Principal, Macpherson Kelley Lawyers
Recognised as a Leading town planning lawyer, Emma’s tact and commercial approach to law has seen her take the lead on several significant environment and planning litigation cases throughout her career. It’s her commitment to seeing client projects through and her keen focus on commercial outcomes that has led to her success on a number of major projects including environmental prosecutions, planning appeals and project challenges relating to controversial developments involving retail, commercial and residential projects and licensed premises. As a specialist in all aspects of local government, planning and environment law and compulsory acquisition, Emma knows the development industry from the inside out. Her clients range from property developers and licensed premises to community groups and private clients. Emma’s experience is particularly sought after amongst property developers as she advises at all stages of the project life-cycle (including development and project applications, environmental assessment, developer and planning agreements and approvals) with consideration to relevant State and Commonwealth environment and planning legislation. Her expansive knowledge and client care makes her one of the leading lawyers in her field.
