US EditionRussia loses High Court battle with Commonwealth over Canberra embassy site, but will be compensated
Australia's High Court ruled the 2023 law revoking Russia's embassy lease valid but ordered compensation and payment of half Russia's legal costs, ending a prolonged dispute.
- Russia was granted a 99-year lease in 2008 to build an embassy near the Australian parliament, but the lease was revoked in 2023 due to security concerns.
- Russia's legal challenge to overturn the revocation was rejected by Australia's High Court, though Russia must be compensated for the revoked lease.
- A Russian diplomat briefly squatted on the site after the 2023 law change before being evicted following a court ruling.
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Sydney Morning Herald
Russian embassy loses its land, its cool and all sense of irony
The Russian Federation has finally lost the land on which it was planning to build a new embassy in Canberra. The Australian government feared the embassy would be a nest of spies.
Australia’s Top Court Blocks Russia From Building New Canberra Embassy
SYDNEY–Australia’s highest court on Wednesday blocked Russia from building a new embassy in the nation’s capital, unanimously upholding a law that cancelled its lease on national security grounds. Russia owned a lease to a plot of land that is about 300 metres (984 feet) from Parliament House in Canberra and intended to build a new embassy building there to replace an older building elsewhere in the capital. But in 2023, the Australian governmen…
Russia has lost a legal battle to build a new embassy next to Australia's Parliament, with the country's high court ruling saying Canberra acted within its rights when it cancelled the lease for the site. Australia passed legislation in 2023 to suspend the planned embassy building after officials deemed it a security threat, foreign media reported, according to Telegraph. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said at the time that his gover…
The Supreme Court of Australia has definitively banned Russia from building a new embassy building in Canberra, the country's capital, by legalizing the cancellation of a land lease for reasons of national security.
Australia's highest court has blocked Russia's plans to build a new embassy in the capital of the country, confirming unanimously a law that has cancelled the granting of the land for national security reasons,...
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