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Administrative law

Rizk v Commissioner of Police, NSW Police Force

The Tribunal held it could hear Rizk’s firearms prohibition order review despite no timely internal review, refusing dismissal and making no stay order.

  • Late internal review application
  • Jurisdiction of ncat
  • Dismissal of proceedings
  • Stay of proceedings
  • Firearms prohibition order
  • Federal jurisdiction argument
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Planning and environment

Para-ere Holdings Pty Ltd v Northern Beaches Council

The Court upheld the appeal on an agreed s 34 resolution and granted development consent for shop top housing at 22 Raglan Street, Manly, with costs thrown away ordered.

  • Development consent
  • Conciliation conference
  • Costs thrown away
  • Shop top housing
  • Affordable housing bonus provisions
  • Heritage conservation
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Criminal law

Worrell v R

The Court granted leave but dismissed a sentence appeal, rejecting complaints about deprivation, mental health, remorse, manifest excess, guilty plea discount and fresh evidence.

  • Appeal against sentence
  • Manifest excess
  • Bugmy principles
  • De la rosa principles
  • Remorse
  • Early appropriate guilty plea scheme
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Administrative law

HJT v NSW Trustee and Guardian

NCAT affirmed NSW Trustee and Guardian’s decision to approve carer payments to HWO, including a $60,000 back payment and $5,000 monthly payments.

  • Merits review
  • Financial management of protected person estate
  • Carer payment approval
  • Affordability of care costs
  • Protected person welfare and interests
  • Merits-review
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Defamation

V’landys v The Thoroughbred Report Pty Ltd

The Court granted leave to amend a defamation defence, holding the proposed particulars about the ATC dispute were capable of supporting justification and contextual truth.

  • Amendment of pleadings
  • Justification
  • Contextual truth
  • Particulars
  • Costs
  • Defamation
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Statutory interpretation

Casella v Commissioner of Police, NSW Police Force

The Court allowed an appeal over whether a conviction for concealing a serious indictable offence is an offence involving dishonesty under the firearms regime.

  • Meaning of offence involving dishonesty
  • Conviction-based disqualification from firearms licensing
  • Reviewability of firearms prohibition orders
  • Concealing serious indictable offence under s 316 crimes act 1900 (nsw)
  • Statutory-interpretation
  • Firearms-regulation
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Civil procedure

Allchin v Wycombe Services Pty Ltd

The Appeal Panel dismissed an application to revoke the guardian ad litem appointment of Bill Hoyles, finding no disqualifying conflict of interest or apprehended bias.

  • Guardian ad litem
  • Conflict of interest
  • Revocation of appointment
  • Apprehended bias
  • Guardian-ad-litem
  • Conflict-of-interest
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Defamation

Gatto v Watson

The Supreme Court of New South Wales granted leave to amend a defamation statement of claim, subject to an election between overlapping imputations.

  • Amendment of pleadings
  • Concerns notice
  • Limitation period
  • Substantially the same imputations
  • Further and better particulars
  • Defamation
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