Giudice v Legal Profession Complaints Committee

• 1. Legal Practitioners
  2. › Professional discipline
  3. › Unsatisfactory professional conduct
  4. › Reckless disregard as to truth or falsity of statement in affidavit
  5. › Whether recklessness requires subjective assessment of actual state of mind
  6. › Whether Tribunal applied objective rather than subjective test
  7. › Legal Profession Act 2008 (WA), ss 402, 403, 438(1), 442
• 1. Administrative Law
  2. › Judicial review
  3. › Appeal on question of law from State Administrative Tribunal
  4. › Error of law in application of legal test
  5. › Whether Tribunal's reasons disclosed application of wrong legal test
  6. › State Administrative Tribunal Act 2004 (WA), s 105
• 1. Administrative Law
  2. › Judicial review
  3. › Unreasonableness
  4. › Whether finding of fact so unreasonable no reasonable tribunal could have made it
  5. › Whether unreasonableness ground applies to findings of fact
  6. › Relationship between no evidence ground and unreasonableness
• 1. Administrative Law
  2. › Judicial review
  3. › Appeal on question of law
  4. › Nature of jurisdiction
  5. › Original not appellate jurisdiction
  6. › Distinction between question of law and question of mixed law and fact
  7. › State Administrative Tribunal Act 2004 (WA), s 105

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