TOMORROW, Thursday 17 December 2009
WHEN: TOMORROW, Thu 17 December at 9.15am
WHERE: Hobart Magistrate Court
The dragged out trespass case against 18 Upper Florentine forest conservationists is currently making way for the conservationists to run an ‘abuse of process’ case.
The ‘abuse of process’ case started last Monday and will be continued tomorrow with both parties completing their submissions.
This comes after Forestry Tasmania, in a stunning last gasp effort, announced they had miraculously unearthed a new and mysterious exclusion zone that the conservationists apparently entered when arrested in the Upper Florentine on Mother’s Day.
The trespass charges were expected to have been withdrawn by Tasmania Police due to Forestry Tasmania’s more than 200-metre-wide bungle in defining its own exclusion zone, which created a test case regarding this same matter against Ellendale resident Lynda Blyth to be dropped on 21st September, after the police chose to not present any evidence about the apparent new exclusion zone. The ‘new’ exclusion zone appears to have been so secret that Tasmania Police and Forestry Tasmania didn’t even know about it at the time of the arrests.
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