Australia, March 26 -- New South Wales Land and Environment Court issued text of the following judgement on Feb. 26:
1. This is an application by the prosecutor, the Secretary, Department of Planning and Environment, to reopen, after his case, and that of the defendants', had closed.
2. The proceedings concern multiple charges of alleged unlawful land clearing by poisoning by the defendants across two farms in New South Wales. The summonses refer to two distinct but temporally proximate charge periods. For reasons that are unclear, the charges referable to each charge period were set down as separate trials.
3. Initially, the defendants did not consent to the evidence in one trial being evidence in the other trial, notwithstanding that t...