Decision Making: Rights, Resources and Review 2017

Topics

• The Relevance of Government Resources in Statutory Decision Making and Claims of Negligence: A Rock and a Hard Place
• Decision Making for Public Authorities Under the Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities Act 2006
  • Definition of a public authority under the Charter
  • What`s required? What are the traps?
  • Case Studies
  • Key record keeping considerations
• Recent Full Federal Court Appeals on Judicial Review
  • Denial of procedural fairness and the possibility of a different outcome
  • What is a question of law under s 44 of the AAT Act?
  • The ethereal contradistinction between a finding of fact and an inference that is not open
  • House v The King error