Constitutional Court decision placing new spotlight on pending mining legislation

摘要

FRESH EMPHASIS IS BEING PLACED on the need for considerably more discussion on pending legal matters crucial to mining. As Herbert Smith Freehills co-chairperson Peter Leon pointed out last week, the striking down by the Constitutional Court of the Restitution of Land Bights Amendment Bill has implications for the unsigned Amendment Bill to the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act (MPRDA), along with several other Bills.