Mortimer v Land Development Agency

[2013] ACTCA 26

ACT Court of Appeal

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Interrogate

Catchwords

1. Appeal
2. › Leave to appeal
3. › Interlocutory orders
4. › Whether decision attended with sufficient doubt
5. › Whether substantial injustice demonstrated
6. › Supreme Court Act 1933 (ACT), s 37E(4)
1. Native Title
2. › Extinguishment
3. › Grant of fee simple
4. › Whether conditional grants
5. › Whether native title extinguished by 1833 and 1836 land grants
1. Practice and Procedure
2. › Interlocutory injunctions
3. › Prima facie case
4. › Whether interlocutory injunction available where no substantive proceedings instituted or foreshadowed

Quick Take

Grants of fee simple in 1833 and 1836 extinguished common law native title over land in the ACT suburb of Lawson. An interlocutory injunction is not available where the applicant has no intention of bringing substantive proceedings.