Lowe (a pseudoynm) v DPP
Court of Appeal
Beach, Taylor JJA and Beale AJA
23/06/2023
[2023] VSCA 152
Planning and environment — Environment protection — Statutory offence — Environmental hazard — Whether substance with a flammable characteristic must be ‘dangerously flammable’ to be an environmental hazard — Environment Protection Act 1970 (Vic), ss 4, 27A, 59E
Criminal law — Environment protection — Offences — Accessorial liability for contravention by corporation — Deeming provision — Whether prosecution required to specify act or omission of the company to establish liability of director — Environment Protection Act 1970 (Vic), ss 1A, 41, 62C, 66B
Words and phrases — ‘environmental hazard’ — ‘flammable’
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