Barrak v City of Parramatta Council

• 1. Local Government
  2. › Powers, functions and duties
  3. › Meetings
  4. › Power of expulsion of councillor
  5. › Act of disorder
  6. › Whether describing mayor as 'clown' during meeting an 'act of disorder'
  7. › Whether insult must lead to actual disorder
  8. › Whether truth or provocation is a defence to insult
  9. › Local Government (General) Regulation 2005 (NSW), r 256
• 1. Local Government
  2. › Powers, functions and duties
  3. › Meetings
  4. › Power of expulsion of councillor
  5. › Preconditions to exercise of power
  6. › Whether failure to comply with requirement to retract and apologise for specific act of disorder required before expulsion
  7. › Local Government Act 1993 (NSW), s 10
  8. › Local Government (General) Regulation 2005 (NSW), rr 256(2), 256(3)
• 1. Local Government
  2. › Powers, functions and duties
  3. › Meetings
  4. › Act of disorder
  5. › Whether characterisation of conduct as 'act of disorder' is jurisdictional fact for court or matter of opinion for chair
  6. › Local Government (General) Regulation 2005 (NSW), r 256
• 1. Local Government
  2. › Jurisdiction of Land and Environment Court
  3. › Whether dispute concerning validity of expulsion from council meetings suitable for adjudication
  4. › Whether alternative avenues of redress preclude court entertaining complaint
  5. › Local Government Act 1993 (NSW), ss 674, 676
  6. › Land and Environment Court Act 1979 (NSW), s 20

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