McKane v Commissioner of Corrective Services of New South Wales (No. 3)

[2018] NSWSC 1060

Supreme Court of NSW

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For Australian Law.

1. Administrative Law
2. › judicial review
3. › reviewable decisions and conduct
4. › applicant in custody
5. › applicant intends to bring proceedings in High Court where filed documents must be typed
6. › decision affecting conditions of applicant’s incarceration
7. › refused access to laptop with write and edit functionality in cell
8. › decision not so unreasonable that no repository of the power could have made it -
1. application dismissed
1. Jurisdiction
2. › Supreme Court
3. › scope of supervisory jurisdiction
4. › decision did not deny applicant access to the High Court
5. › Supreme Court Act 1970 (NSW) ss 23 and 69
6. › scope of judicial review jurisdiction
1. Crime
2. › administration of prisons
3. › New South Wales
4. › ordinary managerial powers exercised by prison authorities are reviewable only for bad faith, improper purpose or legal unreasonableness