EFQ (a pseudonym) v Medical Council of New South Wales

• 1. Health Law
  2. › Medical practitioners
  3. › Registration conditions
  4. › Power of Medical Council to impose condition that practitioner not practise medicine
  5. › Whether condition 'relating to the practitioner's practising' the health profession
  6. › Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (NSW), s 150(1)(b)
• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Extension of time to appeal
  3. › Tribunal's discretion to refuse extension
  4. › Whether discretion miscarried
  5. › Whether proposed grounds of appeal sufficiently meritorious
  6. › Civil and Administrative Tribunal Act 2013 (NSW), ss 31(1), 41
  7. › Civil and Administrative Tribunal Rules 2014 (NSW), r 25(4)
• 1. Administrative Law
  2. › Procedural fairness
  3. › Hearing in absence of party
  4. › Refusal of adjournment
  5. › Whether refusal legally unreasonable
  6. › Whether party given adequate notice can complain of denial of procedural fairness where party declines to participate
• 1. Statutes
  2. › Interpretation
  3. › Reading provision in context of cognate legislation
  4. › Whether time limit for appeal on point of law implied from Civil and Administrative Tribunal Rules where enabling legislation silent
  5. › Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (NSW), s 161
  6. › Civil and Administrative Tribunal Act 2013 (NSW), s 41

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