Gautam v Health Care Complaints Commission

• 1. Administrative Law
  2. › Particular administrative bodies
  3. › NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal
  4. › Occupational Division
  5. › Complaint about medical practitioner
  6. › Adequacy of reasons
  7. › Whether Tribunal gave adequate reasons for factual findings
  8. › Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (NSW), s 165M
• 1. Evidence
  2. › Standard of proof
  3. › Civil cases
  4. › Application of Briginshaw principles
  5. › Whether Tribunal correctly applied standard of comfortable satisfaction
  6. › Briginshaw v Briginshaw (1938) 60 CLR 336
• 1. Appeal
  2. › Leave to appeal
  3. › On factual findings
  4. › Whether appropriate to depart from demeanour-based credit finding
  5. › Civil and Administrative Tribunal Act 2013 (NSW), Sch 5 cl 29(4)(b)
• 1. Administrative Law
  2. › Disciplinary proceedings
  3. › Medical practitioners
  4. › Protective orders
  5. › Whether denial of conduct by practitioner is mandatory relevant consideration in determining penalty
  6. › Whether constructive failure to exercise jurisdiction
  7. › Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (NSW), ss 149A, 149C

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