Odtojan v Law Society of New South Wales

• 1. Occupations
  2. › Legal practitioners
  3. › Solicitor's practising certificate
  4. › Renewal
  5. › Whether Council entitled to make findings relevant to fitness and propriety under Ch 3 when considering renewal
  6. › Whether obliged to proceed under Ch 5 disciplinary framework
  7. › Whether Chapters 3 and 5 mutually exclusive
  8. › Legal Profession Uniform Law (NSW), ss 45, 97
• 1. Administrative Law
  2. › Judicial review
  3. › Jurisdictional error
  4. › Statutory construction
  5. › Whether decision-maker confined to one statutory pathway where statute provides alternative processes
  6. › Whether maxim expressum facit cessare tacitum applies
  7. › Legal Profession Uniform Law (NSW), ss 45, 97, 100
• 1. Administrative Law
  2. › Judicial review
  3. › Procedural fairness
  4. › Hearing rule
  5. › Whether adequate notice given of matters to be considered
  6. › Whether obligation to provide additional particulars
  7. › Whether reliance on judicial commentary constitutes denial of procedural fairness
• 1. Administrative Law
  2. › Judicial review
  3. › Legal unreasonableness
  4. › Whether decision disconsonant with statutory scheme
  5. › Legal Profession Uniform Law (NSW), s 45

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