Administrative law - Judicial review - Jurisdiction - Legal Practice Board - Solicitor - Practising certificate - Renewal - Refusal - Board satisfied solicitor not fit and proper person - Statutory maximum period for disposing of renewal application - Delay in making decision - Whether decision void - "Until the application has been finally determined" - Legal Profession Act 2004 (No 99) ss 2.4.5(3), 2.4.12(2)

Administrative law - Judicial review - Remedies - Discretion to refuse - Adequate alternative remedy - Merits review - Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal - Pending application - Nature and scope - Alleged lack of natural justice by decision maker - Judicial review not precluded by availability of merits review.

Legal practitioners - Solicitors - Complaint - Characterisation - Disciplinary complaint - Validity - Legal Services Commissioner - Complaint made to Law Institute of Victoria - Institute referring complaint to commissioner - Delegate of commissioner referring complaint back to institute for investigation - Delegation effective - Legal Profession Act 2004 (No 99) ss 4.2.5 4.2.8 4.4.7 4.4.9 6.3.12 6.4.1

Legal practitioners - Solicitors - Disciplinary complaint - Notification of complaint to practitioner - Validity - Provision of copy complaint effective - Legal Profession Act 2004 (No 99) s 4.2.8

Legal practitioners - Solicitors - Disciplinary complaint - Discretion to investigate complaint - Wednesbury test applicable - Legal Profession Act 2004 (No 99) ss 4.4.7 4.4.9

Administrative law - Judicial review - Remedies - Certiorari - Availability - Decision affecting legal rights - Legal Services Commissioner - Decision referring complaint to investigatory body - Procedural fairness - Characterisation of complaint as disciplinary - Procedural or substantive - Right to be heard prior to referral.

Building contracts - Principals and sub-contractors - Progress payments - Entitlements - Claim - Dispute - Statutory adjudication process - Need to avoid excessive technicality - Determination - Validity - Procedures - Application for adjudication - Time limit - Electronic initiation of claim permissible - Deference to adjudicator's authority - Single lodgment of two claims - Whether two payment claims were made - Whether payment claim could be made despite previous claim - "Made" - Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act 2002 (No 15) ss 14 16 18 23 28O 28Q 28R 51.

Administrative law - Judicial review - Remedies - Availability - Certiorari - Privative clause - Hickman principle - Construction progress payment disputes - Statutory adjudication process - Amenability to review - "Adjudication determination" - Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act 2002 (No 15) - Constitution Act 1975 (No 8750) s 85

Practice and procedure - Electronic service of documents - Time - Ascertainment - Arrival at recipient's server - Availability for retrieval.

Administrative law - Environment protection and conservation - Old growth forest - Proposed logging in State forest - Controlled harvesting and selling - Obligations - Timber allocation order - Forest management plan - Risk assessment and management - Presence of endangered fauna species - Habitat reserves - Precautionary principle - Flora and fauna protection - Action statements - Code of Practice for Timber Production - Forests Act 1958 (No 6254) ss 3 4 22 - Conservation, Forests and Lands Act 1987 (No 41) ss 4 5 6 7 10 31 - Sustainable Forests (Timber) Act 2004 (No 48) ss 1 4 5 6 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 37 38 39 40 43 44 45 - Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988 (No 47) ss 1 3 4 7 8 11 17 19 20.

Administrative law - Judicial review - Remedies - Injunction - Standing - Special interest in subject matter of litigation - Public interest - Threatened illegal logging in State forest - Conservation group.

Injunctions - Terms - Conditional - Finality - Transparency - Undertaking - Statutory authority - State forest - Threatened unlawful logging - Public interest - Restraint from logging until conditions met.

Animals - Endangered fauna species - Protection - Long-footed potoroo - Orbost spiny crayfish - Giant burrowing frog - Large brown tree frog - Powerful owl - Sooty owl - Spot-tailed quoll - Greater glider - Yellow-bellied glider - Square-tailed kite - Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988 (No 47).

Costs - Discretion - Costs following the event - Party partially successful - Relevant considerations - Public interest - Proportional order.

Town and country planning - Planning scheme - Permit - Construction - Purpose - Plain meaning - Exemption - Heritage control - Site-specific control and precinct control - Victorian Heritage Register - Planning scheme overlay - Permit required under overlay subject to exemption in case of place on register - Primacy of heritage authority over planning authority - Permit for redevelopment of site partially included on register - Review confined to portion of land not on register - Exemption covering both bases of permit requirement under overlay - "Develop" - "Development" - Melbourne Planning Scheme cll 15 43 71 - Planning and Environment Act 1987 (No 45) ss 3 4(2)(f) - Interpretation of Legislation Act 1984 (No 10096) ss 35(a) 39 - Heritage Act 1995 (No 93) ss 1 32 42 48 69 71 73(1) 73(1A)

Administrative law - Judicial review - Remedies - Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal - Appeal on question of law - Order nisi to review - Inappropriateness of resorting to other remedy - Administrative Law Act 1978 (No 9234) - Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal Act 1998 (No 53) ss 3 148

Administrative law - Judicial review - Reasons - Adequacy - Statutory obligation - Path of reasoning from evidence to facts to conclusion - Conflicting medical opinions - Accident Compensation Act 1985 (No 10191) s 68

Administrative law - Judicial review - Remedies - Availability - Certiorari - Error of law on face of record - Mandamus - Accident compensation - Medical panel opinion - Accident Compensation Act 1985 (No 10191) s 45

Estoppel - Issue estoppel - Workers compensation - Entitlement - Medical or like expenses - Claim for declarations - Medical panel - Opinion - Accident Compensation Act 1985 (No 10191) ss 45(1) 99