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Brandon Jarden, 23, appeared in court on Wednesday pleading not guilty to six of the charges he faces and electing trial by jury. He entered no pleas on three others.
A man arrested after a firearms incident that sparked a large armed police response in Christchurch a fortnight ago has elected to go to trial on six charges while not entering pleas for three others.
Brandon Jarden, 23, appeared in the Christchurch District Court on Wednesday and pleaded not guilty to six of the charges he faces, electing trial by jury. He has denied charges of assault, threatening to kill, unlawful possession of a pistol, presenting a pistol, and conspiring to supply methamphetamine,
Melbourne Uni wins land tax appeal with charity defence
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The University of Melbourne will not have to pay land tax on land it rents to a student accommodation company for $1 a year after the Victorian Supreme Court found that the university’s charitable status was not undermined by the for-profit nature of the deal.
The university had been sent an assessment notice for land tax payable for 2019 for a property in Leicester Street, Carlton. The property contained a 648-bed student accommodation site, along with shops and public facilities, run by Campus Living Villages.
For-profit student accommodation services don’t undermine a university’s charitable status.
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Christchurch man Shayne Heappey, 25, had life-threatening injuries when he was dropped off at Christchurch Hospital on December 8, 2018. He died a short while later. (Video first published in December 2018)
A Christchurch man has been jailed for his role in a fatal stabbing he had hoped would be his ticket to becoming a patched member of the Nomads gang. Justin Richard Burke, 32, was sentenced at the High Court in Christchurch on Wednesday to five years and two months’ imprisonment. In November, Burke was convicted for manslaughter for his role in the death of Shayne George Heappey at a house in Russley, Christchurch, on December 8, 2018.
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Simons Pass Station will need to apply for a discretionary activity consent to carry out direct drilling and irrigation.
A farm owner in the Mackenzie District will no longer fight an Environment Court ruling upheld in a High Court decision which environmental advocates say could mark the end of dairy expansions in the basin. In the High Court decision released last week, Justice Robert Osborne upheld the Environment Court’s ruling that the Mackenzie District Council had full discretion to reject or grant a consent application filed by the owner of Simons Pass Station to undertake irrigation and direct drilling for agricultural conversion.