Melbourne Water Corporation & Yarra Valley Water Corporation v Caligiuri

• 1. Administrative Law
  2. › Procedural fairness
  3. › Compulsory acquisition of land
  4. › Whether publication of notice of acquisition conditioned by obligation to accord procedural fairness
  5. › Statutory scheme providing right to be heard at anterior step
  6. › Whether subsequent machinery steps attract separate procedural fairness obligation
  7. › Land Acquisition and Compensation Act 1986 (Vic), ss 5, 6, 19
• 1. Compulsory Acquisition
  2. › Land acquisition by water corporations
  3. › Statutory process under Land Acquisition and Compensation Act 1986 (Vic)
  4. › Certification dispensing with reservation of land for public purpose
  5. › Notice of intention to acquire
  6. › Notice of acquisition
  7. › Whether steps in Part 2 form single integrated process or divisible steps
  8. › Land Acquisition and Compensation Act 1986 (Vic), ss 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 18, 19, 20, 22, 30, 31
  9. › Water Act 1989 (Vic), s 130
• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Appeal by consent
  3. › Duty of appellate court to be satisfied of appellable error
  4. › Whether court may allow appeal in absence of contradictor
• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Parties
  3. › Necessary parties
  4. › Whether registered proprietor of land a necessary party to proceeding challenging validity of compulsory acquisition
  5. › Order directly affecting third person's rights
  6. › Order set aside for failure to join necessary party

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