22-10-21 / Matthew Hickey OAM — Human Rights & Discrimination, Judicial Review & Administrative
The applicant — a prisoner who is serving a life sentence for murder and mutilation of a corpse — has been subject to a "Maximum Security Order" since 2013. The effect of the order is that since 2013 he has been accommodated in solitary confinement and unable to associate with…
4-3-21 / Matthew Hickey OAM, Sophie Gibson — Judicial Review & Administrative, Resources & Energy, Human Rights & Discrimination
This was the first application to the Supreme Court of Queensland for judicial review of powers to cancel a certificate of competency issued to an open-cut examiner for a coal mine, created under amendments to the Coal Mining Safety and Health Act 1999 (Qld) in 2018. Here, the applicant's certificate…
14-1-21 / Matthew Hickey OAM — Human Rights & Discrimination, Judicial Review & Administrative
A mother sought urgent orders, within the Supreme Court's parens patriae jurisdiction, to permit medical treatment of her child's gender dysphoria. Because the whereabouts of the child's father were unknown, and the father was unaware of the mother and child's location (against a background of family violence) it was not expedient to…
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