New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council v Minister Administering the Crown Land Management Act 2016

• 1. Land Law
  2. › Indigenous land rights
  3. › Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983 (NSW)
  4. › Claimable Crown lands
  5. › Whether land needed for essential public purpose under s 36(1)(c)
  6. › Whether executive government formed positive opinion that land needed for essential public purpose
  7. › Whether sale of Crown land to private body for educational purposes satisfies s 36(1)(c)
  8. › Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983 (NSW), ss 36(1)(c), 36(5A), 36(7)
• 1. Administrative Law
  2. › Legal unreasonableness
  3. › Decision of Land and Environment Court
  4. › Whether conclusion that land needed for essential public purpose was legally unreasonable
  5. › Whether evidence capable of discharging onus of proof
  6. › Land and Environment Court Act 1979 (NSW), s 57(1)
• 1. Appeal
  2. › Right of appeal
  3. › Scope of right
  4. › Appeal on question of law from Land and Environment Court
  5. › Whether grounds alleging erroneous application of statute raise questions of law
  6. › Land and Environment Court Act 1979 (NSW), s 57(1)

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