Briot v Riedel

[1988] FCA 854

IN THE FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

GENERAL DIVISION	No. G 837 of 1988
NEW SOUTE WALES DISTRICT REGISTRY

Between:	GEOFFREY TEOMAS BRIOT LEONARD NOEL BRIOT
JOEN MAITLAND GRAHAME

Applicants

And :  - ARTEmR MANNING RIEDEL

First Respondent

SEANE FRANCIS CASTLES

Second Respondent

CORAM: Einfeld J.

DATE: 31 March 1988

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PLACE: Sydney

EX-TEMPORE JUDGMENT

This is an application for an extension of time for the filing of an

application for an order of review under the Administrative Decisions

overtaken him on 6 April. I am of the opinion that the reasons given by

(Judicial Review) Act 1977. The application was filed on 28 March 1988

in respect of a decision of a magistrate sitting in committal

proceedings under the New South Wales Justices Act	1902 on 15 July 1987.
The application is therefore approximately seven months out	of time. The

application for extension of time was fixed for hearing in this Court on

6  April next. Eowever, senior counsel for the applicants has today

applied for an adjournment of that hearing for a maximum of seven days

because of personal unbreakable professional commitments which have

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senior counsel are understandable and justify the adjournment	which	he
seeks.

I therefore fix the hearing of the application for an extension of time

for Friday 8 April not before 12 noon. I will at least commence the hearing of the application on that day. This is subject only to my recommendation to the parties that in the light of what I have been told today, the more sensible and less costly course appears to be that the application for extension of time should be heard together with the substantive application for review. I am willing to make available time myself or to see if another judge can make available time in the first

week in May for that joint hearing to take place. However, in the

meantime, the matter will be heard on Friday 8 April 1988.

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certify that this and the

COPY of the

preceding page$ are a true

Reasons for Judgment herein of his Honour

Mr. Justice Einfeld

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