Italiano v Carbone & Ors

[2005] NSWCA 177

NSW Court of Appeal

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Catchwords

1. Administrative Law
2. › Tribunals
3. › Consumer Trader and Tenancy Tribunal
4. › Jurisdiction
5. › Joinder of parties
6. › Whether person properly joined as party to proceedings
7. › Whether failure to comply with mandatory joinder provision rendered decision invalid
8. › Home Building Act 1989 (NSW), s 48Q
9. › Consumer, Trader and Tenancy Tribunal Act 2001 (NSW), ss 28, 32, 35, 65
1. Administrative Law
2. › Judicial review
3. › Jurisdictional error
4. › Ultra vires
5. › Tribunal making order against person not a party to proceedings
6. › Whether order a nullity
7. › Consumer, Trader and Tenancy Tribunal Act 2001 (NSW), s 65(3)(a)
1. Administrative Law
2. › Procedural fairness
3. › Natural justice
4. › Tribunal proceedings
5. › Refusal of adjournment
6. › Whether refusal to adjourn constituted denial of procedural fairness
7. › Whether tribunal obliged to consider adjournment of own motion
8. › Consumer, Trader and Tenancy Tribunal Act 2001 (NSW), ss 28(4), 35
1. Statutory Interpretation
2. › Mandatory and directory provisions
3. › Whether non-compliance with statutory procedure renders decision invalid
4. › Irregularity provisions
5. › Whether irregularity provision applies to breach of mandatory procedural fairness requirements
6. › Project Blue Sky Inc v Australian Broadcasting Authority (1998) 194 CLR 355 applied
7. › Consumer, Trader and Tenancy Tribunal Act 2001 (NSW), s 32(3)
8. › Home Building Act 1989 (NSW), s 48Q

Quick Take

Section 48Q of the Home Building Act 1989 (NSW) imposes a mandatory requirement that a person be joined as a party to CTTT building claim proceedings by notice in writing or oral direction; failure to comply renders any order against that person invalid for want of jurisdiction. The irregularity provision in s 32(3) of the CTTT Act does not save breaches of mandatory procedural fairness requirements under ss 28(4) and 35 of the CTTT Act. A CTTT order against a person who was never formally joined as a party is ultra vires and may be set aside by certiorari under s 65(3)(a) of the CTTT Act.