Environment
Pay Gunns 20 costs, Gunns told
ABC Online
Tasmanian timber company Gunns Limited has been ordered to pay preliminary legal costs to defendants in the ‘Gunns 20′ case. The order follows the Victorian Supreme Court’s rejection last year of Gunns’ first statement of claim, which seeks more than $6 million from individuals and groups. The timber company is suing the Greens, the Wilderness Society and others for alleged sabotage and trespass at its logging sites.
Last year Gunns was ordered to pay the costs of the defendants. Yesterday the court assessed the costs of Greens Senator Bob Brown and Tasmanian Greens leader Peg Putt to be $69,385. Another defendant, Helen Gee, was awarded $17,500.