Under the Victims of Crime Assistance Act 1996 (Vic), the tribunal is not required to determine an applicant's eligibility for specific types of assistance under ss 8 and 8A before considering the disqualifying matters under s 54; the tribunal may address s 54 matters at the threshold where they are squarely raised in the material. The distinction between specific error grounds and outcome-focused unreasonableness should be maintained in judicial review proceedings, with specific errors pleaded as separate grounds rather than subsumed within an unreasonableness contention.
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