Practitioners seeking leave to appeal Mental Health Tribunal decisions via VCAT to the Supreme Court should be aware that where the treatment order has expired and relief is limited to declarations, the court will require demonstration of foreseeable practical consequences or issues of genuine public importance beyond the individual case. Procedural fairness grounds tied to case-specific circumstances, and Charter arguments dependent on particular factual contexts, are unlikely to satisfy this threshold.
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