Picos v Council of the New South Wales Bar Association

• 1. Occupations
  2. › Legal practitioners
  3. › Barristers
  4. › Qualifications and admission
  5. › Refusal of grant of practising certificate
  6. › Whether Bar Council bound by Law Society Council's determination that applicant fit and proper person
  7. › Legal Profession Uniform Law (NSW), ss 44(1), 45(2)
• 1. Administrative Law
  2. › Judicial review
  3. › Jurisdictional error
  4. › Decision of regulatory authority to refuse practising certificate
  5. › Whether failure to accord procedural fairness
  6. › Whether error of law on face of record
  7. › Supreme Court Act 1970 (NSW), s 69
• 1. Appeal
  2. › Leave to appeal
  3. › Interlocutory orders
  4. › Striking out summons seeking declaratory relief
  5. › Whether issue of principle, general public importance or relevant injustice
  6. › Where right of statutory merits review not exercised
• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Court of Appeal
  3. › Review of orders of judge of appeal
  4. › Whether error of principle or decision plainly wrong
  5. › Supreme Court Act 1970 (NSW), s 46(4)

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