Seiffert v The Prisoners Review Board

• 1. Administrative Law
  2. › Judicial review
  3. › Prisoners Review Board
  4. › Cancellation of parole order
  5. › Whether Board obliged to accord natural justice and procedural fairness
  6. › Whether exclusion of natural justice under s 115 operates as privative clause
  7. › Whether privative clause constitutionally valid
  8. › Sentence Administration Act 2003 (WA), ss 44, 107B, 115, 115A
• 1. Administrative Law
  2. › Procedural fairness
  3. › Exclusion by statute
  4. › Whether statutory exclusion of natural justice prevents oral hearings
  5. › Whether Board has power to conduct oral hearings notwithstanding exclusion
  6. › Whether blanket policy against oral hearings is invalid fetter on discretion
  7. › Sentence Administration Act 2003 (WA), ss 106, 107, 109, 115, 115A
• 1. Administrative Law
  2. › Reasons for decision
  3. › Statutory obligation to provide reasons
  4. › Content of adequate reasons
  5. › Whether failure to provide adequate reasons constitutes jurisdictional error or error on face of record
  6. › Sentence Administration Act 2003 (WA), s 107B
• 1. Administrative Law
  2. › Relevant and irrelevant considerations
  3. › Whether errors of fact amount to taking into account irrelevant considerations or failing to consider relevant considerations
  4. › Distinction between error of fact and error of law

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