Venesa Gleeson
Venesa Gleeson is a lawyer at Emanate Legal. She has specialist experience and expertise in local government, town planning, environment, project management, property law, compensation and commercial litigation.
Qualifications and Directorships
- Bachelor of Laws
- Bachelor of Arts
- Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice
- Environmental Auditor
- Lawyer, Supreme Court of Queensland
- Lawyer, High Court of Australia
- Lawyer, Supreme Court of Northern Territory
- Member, Urban Development Institute of Australia
- Member, Queensland Law Society Planning and Environment Law Committee
- Director, Sustainable Townsville
Legal Services
During the course of her legal career, Venesa has undertaken commercial and planning and environment work which includes the following:
Court Proceedings
- Prosecutions in the Magistrates Court
- Local law compliance
- Enforcement proceedings
Appeals to the:
- District Court
- Planning and Environment Court
- Supreme Court
- Court of Appeal
- Land Court
Advices:
- Planning Law
- Environment Law
- Including:
- Compulsory land acquisition and compensation
- Infrastructure Charges
- Local Law compliance
- Town planning approvals
- Pollution incidents management, remediation, development and sale of contaminated land, including investigation and prosecution and advising if land is being audited or prosecuted by environmental agencies
- Environmental impact assessment and approval for infrastructure projects (resource and energy)
- Climate change issues including mandatory reporting, carbon reduction, carbon risk and carbon sequestering
- Commercial advice in respect of environmental, heritage and native title issues due diligence and compliance
Document Preparation
- Infrastructure Agreements
- Drafting Local Laws and Regulations
- Compensation Claims
- Appeals
Project Management
- Managing a range of statutory approvals to enable the implementation of complex development projects