Cases

One of the main purposes if this blog is to quickly analyse cases on the Charter as they emerge, especially in this bellwether year. This page keeps track of the main posts on each case. It will be updated periodically. The cases are listed from latest to earliest.

Drummond v Telstra Corporation Ltd [2008] VCAT 2630

• Wrapping up 2008

Tilley v The Queen [2008] HCA 58

• Wrapping up 2008

A R M v Secretary to the Department of Justice [2008] VSCA 266

• Wrapping up 2008

R J E v Secretary to the Department of Justice [2008] VSCA 265

• Maxwell and Weinberg’s Charter dodge
• Nettle’s Charter dodge
• The government’s Charter dodge

R v Dickson [2008] VSCA 271

• The Charter vs one-man conspiracies

Seachange Management Pty Ltd v Bevnol Constructions Developments Pty Ltd Ors  [2008] VCAT 2629

• VCAT vs the Charter
• Giuseppe de Simone redux

Kilkenny v Frankston CC [2008] VCAT 256

• Wrapping up 2008

Morgan v Department of Human Services (General) [2008] VCAT 2420

• Wrapping up 2008

TGM Investments Pty Ltd v Rosenfield [2008] VCAT 2407

• VCAT vs the Charter

Royal Victorian Bowls Association Inc (Anti-Discrimination Exemption) [2008] VCAT 2415

• The right to lawn bowls

Preshil, The Margaret Lyttle Memorial School (Anti-Discrimination Exemption) [2008] VCAT 2414

• The right to co-education

Re Dickson [2008] VSC 516

• The Supreme Court vs the Charter

R v Falcone [2008] VSCA 225

• The Charter in passing

Director of Housing v IF [2008] VCAT 2413

• Charter s. 39 vs tenants

Re AWB Limited [2008] VSC 473

• Flugge’s challenge

XFJ v Director of Public Transport [2008] VCAT 2303

• The Charter vs taxi passengers
• A near miss for the Charter
• Taxi driver redux

East Melbourne Group Inc v Minister for Planning [2008] VSCA 217

• The Charter vs Ministerial rezoning

R v De Simone [2008] VSCA 216

• The right to bite

Daniels v Bayside Health [2008] VSC 472

• The right not to be hurt

Re Kent [2008] VSC 431

• The Charter’s complex war on terror

McDermott v Victoria Police [2008] VCAT 2183

• The right to information

Devine & Legg v VCAT & Ors [2008] VSC 410

• The rights of difficult defendants
• Lost in transition

LM (Guardianship) [2008] VCAT 2084

• The Charter and risk assessment

Howe & Ors v Harvey; DPP v Tinkler & Ors [2008] VSCA 181

• An Un-Chartered conviction

Sabet v Medical Practitioners Board of Victoria [2008] VSC 346

• The scope of Charter s. 25(1)
• How to presume innocence
• The Thirty-Eight Steps

BAE Systems Australia Ltd (Anti-Discrimination) [2008] VCAT 1799

• VCAT vs Charter s. 49
• VCAT vs the conduct mandate

X v General Television Corporation Pty Ltd [2008] VSC 344

• Belly up!
• Underbelly: The Director’s Cut

Bank of Cyprus Australia Limited v The Registrar of Titles [2008] VSC 327

• The rights of $2 companies

DPP v Nguyen; DPP v Duncan [2008] VSC 292

• Property rights in the County Court

Allen v Secretary to the Department of Justice & Anor [2008] VSC 288

• Dodging a dodgy argument (dodgily)

Seachange Management Pty Ltd v Bevnol Constructions Developments Pty Ltd Ors  [2008] VCAT 1479

• VCAT vs the Charter
• Giuseppe de Simone redux

09-003 [2008] MHRB 1

• A judgment at last!
• The retro Charter
• The right to review

MM (Guardianship) [2008] VCAT 1282

• The right to consent

Director of Housing v TP (Residential Tenancies) [2008] VCAT 1275

• The Charter vs eviction

Carwoode Pty Ltd v Cardinia SC (Red Dot) [2008] VCAT 133

• The Charter in planning hearings

Rannstrom v Dandenong Ranges Junior Football League Inc [2008] VCAT 1185

• The right to Aussie rules

R v Long [2008] VCC 595

• The Charter vs DNA sampling

DPP v Zierk [2008] VSC 184

• The right to leak
• Comparative leaking

DPP v Ali [2008] VSC 167

• Tainted property, tainted statute

Dental Practice Board of Victoria v Gardner [2008] VCAT 908

• The right to religious dentistry

Swain v Department of Infrastructure [2008] VCAT 848

• The Charter and bus fraud

MH6 v Mental Health Review Board (General) [2008] VCAT 846

• The Charter and mental health

R v Rich (Ruling No 2) [2008] VSC 141

• Charter not applied again!
• The right to Windows Vista
• The gap in Charter trial remedies

Guss v Aldy Corporation Pty Ltd & Anor [2008] VCAT 912

• Interpretation mandate applied

Kortel v Mirik & Mirik [2008] VSC 103

• Charter s. 6(2)(b) or not to be?
• A question of law arises about ‘a question of law arises’
• The angel in the details

General Television Corporation v DPP [2008] VSCA 49 (Underbelly case)

• A very soft Undebelly
• No role for the Charter in Underbelly case
• Does the media have rights?
• The Court of Appeal’s human rights culture
• Crikey on Underbelly
• The Charter of Responsibilities
• s78B v the Charter
• The Queen of Criticising Things
• The right to Underbelly DVDs
• Underbelly hilarity
• Review: Underbelly
• Unsuppressed
• Resuppressed

R v Benbrika (Ruling no 20) [2008] VSC 80

• The Charter’s War on the War on Terror
• A new problem Charter section?
• The Charter v The Commonwealth

Guneser v Magistrates’ Court of Victoria  [2008] VSC 57

• A judge’s who’s actually read the Charter

Halwood Corporation v Roads Corporation [2008] VSC 28

• Another road not taken

MHRB [2008] 08-133

• Tribunals under the Charter

Ferguson v Walkley [2008] VSC 7

• A High Court declaration of inconsistent interpretation?

Ragg v Magistrates Court of Victoria & Corcoris [2008] VSC 1

• (Mis)applying the Charter’s stupidest section

DPP v Gray [2008] VSC 4

• It begins
• Shades of Gray
• Another Gray day
• Charter applied again!

MHRB [2008] 08-106

• Tribunals under the Charter