Australia, June 27 -- New South Wales Land and Environment Court issued text of the following judgement on May 26:
1. BALL JA: I agree with Yehia J.
2. FAGAN J: I have had the advantage of reading Yehia J's judgment in draft. I agree with her Honour's conclusion that ground 1 should be upheld and ground 2 rejected. I agree with her Honour's proposed orders. My additional observations, which follow, rest upon Yehia J's summaries of the evidence and the remarks on sentence and the arguments on appeal.
3. As her Honour explains in detail, there were two distinct groups of offences. In mid-2019 at the age of 25 the applicant committed five offences of sexual intercourse with KL, a girl of 15 years, while she was under his authority as a staf...