Saraceni v Australian Securities and Investments Commission

• 1. Administrative Law
  2. › Natural justice
  3. › Procedural fairness
  4. › Investigatory powers
  5. › Whether implied obligation of procedural fairness attaches to antecedent administrative step in two-stage process
  6. › Whether power to authorise eligible applicant directly affects rights or interests of potential examinee
  7. › Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001 (Cth), s 11(4)
  8. › Corporations Act 2001 (Cth), ss 9, 596A, 596B
• 1. Corporations
  2. › Examinations
  3. › Division 1 of Part 5.9 of Corporations Act 2001
  4. › Eligible applicant
  5. › Authorisation by ASIC
  6. › Two-stage process
  7. › Whether potential target of examination entitled to notice at authorisation stage
  8. › Corporations Act 2001 (Cth), ss 9, 596A, 596B
• 1. Administrative Law
  2. › Judicial review
  3. › Improper exercise of power
  4. › Relevant considerations
  5. › Whether ASIC required to take into account pending litigation and commercial disputation when authorising eligible applicant
  6. › Administrative Decisions (Judicial Review) Act 1977 (Cth)
• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Summary judgment
  3. › No reasonable prospect of success
  4. › Whether summary dismissal appropriate where challenge turns on proposition of law contrary to orthodox application of binding principles
  5. › Federal Court of Australia Act 1976 (Cth), s 31A

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