Australia, Aug. 11 -- New South Wales Land and Environment Court issued text of the following judgement on July 11:
1. BELL CJ: This is an application for leave to appeal from an interlocutory judgment of Faulkner J (the primary judge) in which his Honour declined to order pursuant to r 28.2 of the Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 (NSW) (UCPR) that certain questions be decided separately from and before any trial in the proceedings: LSR3 v New South Wales [2024] NSWSC 1570 (PJ or primary judgment).
2. In the underlying proceedings, commenced on 28 August 2023 (the 2023 proceedings), LSR3, a former ward of the State of New South Wales (the State), sought compensation for historic child sexual abuse alleged to have occurred between 1969 a...