1Where a statute provides adequate alternative remedies including full merits review in a specialist tribunal, a court retains discretion under r 3566 of the Court Procedures Rules 2006 (ACT) to dismiss a judicial review application as inappropriate to continue, particularly where the applicant has already exercised the right to merits review.
2A judicial review application that seeks substantive administrative relief (such as the issuance of a certificate of occupancy) that is not within the court's power to grant on review, and which has already been refused by the appropriate decision-maker and confirmed on merits review, discloses no reasonable basis and lacks utility warranting dismissal.
3While courts must exercise flexibility in managing proceedings brought by self-represented litigants, the court's role does not extend to advising such parties on how to exercise their rights or to conducting proceedings on their behalf.
