Australia, Aug. 19 -- New South Wales Land and Environment Court issued text of the following judgement on July 18:
1. On 4 July 2025, I dismissed with costs a notice of appeal on the basis that it was incompetent, on the separate applications of each of the respondents: Byrne v Turner Freeman Lawyers [2025] NSWCA 146 (principal judgment). These reasons assume familiarity with the principal judgment.
2. In the penultimate paragraph of the principal judgment, I noted that both respondents sought their costs on an indemnity basis and had served offers of compromise under r 20.26 (read with r 51.47) of the Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 (NSW) (UCPR) on the appellant on 27 May 2025. In circumstances where no submissions were advanced spec...