A recent Supreme Court decision has touched on the question of alleged bias on the part of Council members, arising from participation in a State Administrative Tribunal (SAT) mediation. In Sanders v City of South Perth [2019] WASC 226, two neighbours to a...

Planning law can be complicated at times, and local planning schemes can have their individual quirks. But dealing with a minor amendment to a development approval, where the amendment satisfies the deemed-tocomply requirements of the Residential Design Codes...

Last year the State Administrative Tribunal delivered its decision in the matter of Paintessa Developments Pty Ltd and Town of East Fremantle [2014] WASAT 81. The case did not involve a major development and the decision received little fanfare. However, the decision...