Riva NSW Pty Ltd v Mark A Fraser & Christopher P Clancy t/as Fraser Clancy Lawyers

• 1. Administrative Law
  2. › Judicial review
  3. › Discretionary refusal of relief
  4. › Costs order challenged by judicial review
  5. › Whether relief should be refused on discretionary grounds
  6. › Extraordinarily protracted proceedings
  7. › Amount in question not large
  8. › No strongly arguable case
  9. › Supreme Court Act 1970 (NSW), s 69
• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Costs
  3. › Indemnity costs
  4. › Judicial review of indemnity costs order
  5. › No appeal available from District Court decision on appeal from Costs Review Panel
  6. › District Court Act 1973 (NSW), ss 4, 127
• 1. Administrative Law
  2. › Procedural fairness
  3. › Directions by judge referring non-parties' conduct to regulatory authorities
  4. › Whether directions incorporating findings of misconduct made without affording procedural fairness
  5. › Whether court may declare invalidity of administrative directions of judicial officer
  6. › Supreme Court Act 1970 (NSW), s 75

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