5 Oct 2012
SECRETARY FOR JUSTICE AS RELEVANT SUCCESSOR TO THE LEGAL SERVICES AGENCY V CHERYL YVONNE SIMES COA CA414/2011
- Citation
- COA CA414/2011
- Court
- Court of Appeal
Where a statutory audit addressed the same issues as the cancellation process and was conducted for the purpose of assessing quality and value, the audit was an implied mandatory consideration; failure by both the Consideration Panel and the Review Panel to consider the favourable parts of that audit, failure to disclose other prior decisions relied on by the Review Panel, and undisclosed prejudicial annotations by an LSA adviser to a Panel member breached natural justice; those reviewable errors warranted quashing the Panel decisions (remittal was not ordered given supervening legislative ch…