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Argos Pty Ltd & Ors v. Simon Corbell, Minister for the Environment and Sustainable Development & Ors

Case No. C3/2014
Case information

Lower Court Judgment

29/11/2013 Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory (Court of Appeal) (Penfold J, Cowdroy J, Nield AJ)

[2013] ACTCA 51

Catchwords

Administrative law - Administrative Decisions (Judicial Review) Act 1989 (Cth) ("Act"), s 5(1) - Application made to review decision of Minister to approve development application -  Appellants adduced evidence to effect that approval would cause loss of trade - Whether corporate appellants have standing to bring application - Whether economic interests will suffice to establish that party is "person aggrieved" for purposes of s 5(1) of Act.

Short particulars

Documents

16/05/2014 Hearing (SLA, Canberra)

28/05/2014 Notice of appeal

20/06/2014 Written submissions (Appellants)

20/06/2014 Chronology (Appellants)

11/07/2014 Written submissions (First Respondent)

11/07/2014 Written submissions (Second and Third Respondents)

25/07/2014 Reply

13/10/2014 Hearing (Full Court, Canberra) (Audio-visual recording)

10/12/2014 Judgment (Judgment summary)