Monthly Archives: November 2019

Discretion

Discretion The NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal dismissed a proceeding (a privacy matter) commenced by DQW, a client of the Department of Family and Community Services (now the Department of Communities and Justice), after it found that DQW had filed her review application before a pre-condition that gave the Tribunal jurisdiction existed.[1] (The Tribunal’s finding…

Of despots and sheep

Of despots and sheep The High Court has said: It is “out of the question” and not a conceivable function of a judicial tribunal in a civilised country “for the tribunal to impair the obligation of a law or to attempt to make a new one … There may be legislatures which prefer to set…