Qadir v Department of Transport

[2015] NTSC 75

Supreme Court of the Northern Territory

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1. Appeals
2. › Natural justice
3. › Procedural fairness
4. › Adjournments
5. › Application for adjournment by self-represented litigant made on hearing day
6. › Application dismissed by magistrate
7. › Applicant failed to comply with Court directions
8. › Applicant did not take the opportunity to present his case
9. › Appellant did not identify an error of principle in the magistrate’s decision to not grant the adjournment
10. › Appeal dismissed
1. Appeals
2. › Natural justice
3. › Appellant denied the opportunity to present oral evidence
4. › Appellant failed to identify evidence that would have been led
5. › Appellant explained the matters put against him
6. › Persistent interruption by magistrate in appellant’s cross-examination
7. › No material effect on outcome of the proceedings
8. › No denial of procedural fairness
9. › Appeal dismissed
1. Appeals
2. › Errors of law
3. › Hearings de novo
4. › Appellate court to assess evidence at the time of the hearing de novo
5. › Magistrate assessed evidence at the time of the initial application
6. › Magistrate may have reached a different conclusion if the correct test was applied
7. › Appeal allowed
1. Appeals
2. › Evidence
3. › Relevant and irrelevant evidence
4. › Magistrate did not consider irrelevant or inadmissible evidence
5. › Ground not considered

Citation[2015] NTSC 75

CourtNTSC

JurisdictionNorthern Territory

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