An applicant seeking leave to appeal from the QCAT Appeal Tribunal on the ground that a disciplinary penalty is manifestly excessive must engage with the reasons of the Appeal Tribunal and demonstrate that the exercise of discretion miscarried in one of the ways identified in House v The King; merely reiterating that the penalty was excessive is insufficient. Unnecessary and speculative comments by a tribunal presiding member during a hearing, while criticised as unfortunate and irrelevant, will not give rise to apprehended bias where no objection was taken at the time, the comment was not repeated, and it did not feature in the tribunal's reasons.
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