Lahoud v Willoughby City Council

[2022] NSWCA 214

NSW Court of Appeal

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Interrogate

Catchwords

1. Practice and Procedure
2. › Parties
3. › Joinder
4. › Mandatory joinder in judicial review proceedings
5. › Body 'responsible for' decision to be reviewed
6. › Whether local planning panel exercising functions on behalf of council is the body responsible for the decision
7. › Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 (NSW), r 59.3(4)
1. Practice and Procedure
2. › Parties
3. › Joinder
4. › Discretionary joinder
5. › Necessary or proper party
6. › Whether decision-maker exercising delegated or representative functions is a necessary party
7. › Whether desire to administer interrogatories justifies joinder
8. › Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 (NSW), r 6.24
1. Appeal
2. › Leave to appeal
3. › Interlocutory decision
4. › Whether issue of principle or general public importance
5. › Whether injustice reasonably clear
6. › Greater reluctance where decision involves exercise of discretion on practice and procedure
1. Environmental Law
2. › Development consent
3. › Consent authority
4. › Local planning panels
5. › Exercise of council functions on behalf of council
6. › Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 (NSW), ss 2.19, 2.20, 4.5, 4.8

Quick Take

Where a local planning panel determines a DA on behalf of a council, the council (not the panel) is the body 'responsible for' the decision for mandatory joinder purposes under r 59.3(4) UCPR, and the panel need not be joined as a necessary party under r 6.24.