Mendonca v Legal Services Commissioner

• 1. Appeal
  2. › Application for leave to appeal
  3. › Proposed appeal from order dismissing summons for judicial review
  4. › Whether decision attended with sufficient doubt to warrant reconsideration
  5. › Whether issue of principle, question of public importance, or reasonably clear injustice
  6. › Supreme Court Act 1970 (NSW), s 101(2)(r)
• 1. Administrative Law
  2. › Judicial review
  3. › Decision of Legal Services Commissioner
  4. › Internal review of decision of Law Society to close complaint
  5. › Power to conduct review at 'absolute discretion' of Commissioner
  6. › Whether decision amenable to certiorari or mandamus
  7. › Whether Commissioner required to assess merits before declining review
  8. › Legal Profession Uniform Law (NSW), ss 266(1), 300, 313(1)
• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Self-represented litigants
  3. › Duty of court to ensure fairness
  4. › Whether court required to undertake partisan analysis of unstructured submissions to identify arguable points

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