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Phillip Trestrail v City of Karratha: A Lesson in Workplace Accountability

Published on 09 April 2025| By Adam Watts

In a recent decision on workplace misconduct involving the City of Karratha (City), Phillip Trestrail v City of Karratha 2024 WAIRC 00870, the Western Australian Industrial Relations Commission (WAIRC) upheld the City’s dismissal of Mr Phillip Trestrail, a senior...

Compliance and enforcement, Updates

Compliance Issues under the Caravan Parks and Camping Grounds Act 1995

Published on 17 December 2024| By Madeline Madvad

Introduction Caravan parks and camping grounds can create an enormous headache for local governments from a compliance perspective. Regulating caravan parks requires an analysis of health, building, and planning issues, in addition to the respective requirements...

Compliance and enforcement, Updates

Identification and Investigation of Planning Offences – A Case Study

Published on 05 December 2024| By Tim Beckett

Overview It is well established that offences under the Planning and Development Act 2005 (WA) (PDA) can result in substantial penalties being imposed, having regard to the significant maximum penalties and daily penalties that can apply to offences of that kind. ...

Planning and environment, Updates

A duty of care to future generations? The case of Minister for the Environment v Sharma [2022] FCAFC 35

Published on 01 October 2024| By Ricardo Agostino

It is well established that a common law duty of care may apply to governmental and local government decision makers in certain circumstances. The nature and scope of such a duty has become a topical issue given the increase in legal challenges to the validity of...

Governance and administrative law, Updates

Privacy and local government: The Privacy and Responsible Information Sharing Bill 2024

Published on 22 August 2024| By Austen Mell

Whilst local governments have to date been an exempt entity under the Federal Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (Federal Privacy Act), local governments are set to become a designated public entity in new legislation being introduced into WA Parliament that seeks to protect the...

Planning and environment, Updates

Protection of views under the R-Codes in WA: case law overview

Published on 04 July 2024| By Peter Wittkuhn

For most single houses in Western Australia, the exercise of discretions under the Residential Design Codes (R-Codes) has become vested in local government CEOs or officers authorised by CEOs, to the exclusion of elected Councils. This is what the recently-enacted...

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Phillip Trestrail v City of Karratha: A Lesson in Workplace Accountability

Compliance Issues under the Caravan Parks and Camping Grounds Act 1995

Identification and Investigation of Planning Offences – A Case Study

A duty of care to future generations? The case of Minister for the Environment v Sharma [2022] FCAFC 35

Privacy and local government: The Privacy and Responsible Information Sharing Bill 2024

Protection of views under the R-Codes in WA: case law overview

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