12-4-21 / Scott McLeod KC, Matthew Hickey OAM — Judicial Review & Administrative, Resources & Energy
The applicants applied for exploration permits for minerals other than coal (EPM) under the Mineral Resources Act 1989. The Minster’s delegate refused them for virtually identical reasons, including a history of non-compliance (by the applicant or a related person) with the Environmental Protection Act 1994. The applicants each brought an…
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…
12-2-21 / Matthew Hickey OAM — Inquiries & Coronial Inquests, Judicial Review & Administrative
In an inquest into the stabbing deaths of two men, the Deputy State Coroner decided not to permit oral cross-examination of a man who had admitted to police he had stabbed them in self-defence. Instead, because of expert evidence the witness was suffering from PTSD, the Deputy State Coroner directed…
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…
2-6-20 / Matthew Hickey OAM — Judicial Review & Administrative, Resources & Energy
A decision about costs, after an earlier decision in which the Court dismissed an application for judicial review of a Land Court decision. Here, Justice Applegarth considered the circumstances in which an unsuccessful applicant for judicial review may avoid liability for costs where the matter was of "public interest". Matthew…
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