Ghosh v Health Care Complaints Commission

(2020) 104 NSWLR 107; [2020] NSWCA 353

NSW Court of Appeal

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Catchwords

1. Administrative Law
2. › Particular administrative bodies
3. › NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal
4. › Health practitioner disciplinary proceedings
5. › Power to order complaint heard on papers
6. › Whether National Law provisions requiring notice and right to attend prevail over NCAT Act power to dispense with hearing
7. › Health Practitioner Regulation National Law 2009 (NSW), ss 165A, 165I, 165J
8. › Civil and Administrative Tribunal Act 2013 (NSW), s 50
1. Administrative Law
2. › Procedural fairness
3. › Disciplinary proceedings
4. › Right to attend hearing
5. › Right to be heard orally
6. › Whether 'show cause' procedure capable of curing denial of procedural fairness
7. › Whether Tribunal predetermined complaints
1. Administrative Law
2. › Reasons for decision
3. › Adequacy of reasons
4. › Disciplinary tribunal
5. › Whether ipse dixit reasoning constitutes proper discharge of obligation to give reasons
6. › Health Practitioner Regulation National Law 2009 (NSW), s 165M
7. › Civil and Administrative Tribunal Act 2013 (NSW), s 62
1. Administrative Law
2. › Disciplinary proceedings
3. › Health practitioners
4. › Tribunal not confined to particulars of complaint
5. › Whether Tribunal may find impairment not particularised by Commission without notice to practitioner
6. › Procedural fairness

Quick Take

Where the National Law requires notice and confers a right to attend, NCAT cannot dispense with a hearing under s 50 of the NCAT Act in health practitioner disciplinary proceedings; the National Law provisions prevail by reason of s 165A.