Legal Profession Complaints Committee v Lourey

• 1. Professions and Trades
  2. › Legal practitioner
  3. › Disciplinary proceedings
  4. › State Administrative Tribunal
  5. › Findings of professional misconduct and unsatisfactory professional conduct
  6. › Whether Tribunal applied wrong legal test
  7. › Whether Tribunal denied procedural fairness by failing to determine allegations as pleaded
  8. › Legal Profession Act 2008 (WA), ss 402, 403(1), 438
• 1. Administrative Law
  2. › Procedural fairness
  3. › Tribunal proceedings
  4. › Whether tribunal must inform parties before deciding case on basis materially different from that on which parties conducted hearing
  5. › Whether failure to consider allegations as pleaded constitutes denial of procedural fairness
  6. › State Administrative Tribunal Act 2005 (WA), s 32(1)
• 1. Tribunals
  2. › State Administrative Tribunal
  3. › Finality of decisions
  4. › Estoppel
  5. › Whether Tribunal may reconsider liability findings at penalty hearing
  6. › Whether statutory scheme permits progressive decision-making on professional misconduct
  7. › State Administrative Tribunal Act 2005 (WA), ss 3(1), 34(1), 51A(1)(a), 82(1), 83, 84, 105(1), 105(9)
• 1. Appeal
  2. › Leave to appeal from State Administrative Tribunal
  3. › Appeal on questions of law
  4. › Whether intermediate findings of fact appealable
  5. › Power to make substitutive orders
  6. › State Administrative Tribunal Act 2005 (WA), s 105

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