The nation’s highest court has kept the door open for environmental groups to prosecute law-breaking loggers when regulators won’t, dealing another blow to the native timber industry. The High Court decision on Wednesday was welcomed as a “huge win” in the battle to protect glider habitats. It confirmed private people or entities can enforce state […]

But the High Court found people whose private interests were affected or who had a special interest, such as long-standing concern about logging and its effect on certain species, could bring prosecutions.

This could be quite significant.

It potentially restricts vexatious legal challenges by otherwise unconnected parties to hold up projects. Narrowing or reaffirming the size of the field of persons with a recognised claim.

I cannot find an article as evidence so if i’m wrong on the below, sorry, and please don’t rely on my memory here.

Disclaimer aside, I’m sure i heard that vexatious legal challenges from non-local actors have been used to help cripple wind farm investments in NSW in the past. If this is true, then this High Court decision could make vexatious campaigns like that harder to implement.

I must have heard it on a podcast, instead of reading it, i think.