Costs orders made by the Health Practitioners Tribunal under s 255 of the Health Practitioners (Professional Standards) Act 1999 (Qld) are not appealable decisions under s 346 of that Act, and the Court of Appeal has no jurisdiction to entertain a separate appeal against such orders. A tribunal is not required to state the basis of its preference for one expert's evidence over another in relation to every particular on which it makes an adverse finding. The mere presence of an extraneous document in a tribunal file does not establish a denial of procedural fairness absent evidence the document came before the decision-maker.
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