Where a disciplinary complaint has been determined in a respondent's favour on an ultimate issue, a subsequent complaint raising the same ultimate issue in relevantly identical circumstances may be stayed as an abuse of process, even where the second complaint arises from a separate incident and is based on a different statutory provision, if the differences between the two matters have no bearing on the determination of the ultimate issue. The question whether privative clauses in the Local Government Act 2009 (Qld) could affect the Supreme Court's jurisdiction to stay proceedings on abuse of process grounds after [name withheld] was left open.
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