Badari & Ors v. Minister for Housing and Homelands & Anor;
Badari & Ors v. Minister for Territory Families and Urban Housing & Anor
Case No.
D1/2025, D7/2025
Case Information
Lower Court Judgment
24/01/2025 Supreme Court of the Northern Territory (Court of Appeal) (Grant CJ, Barr and Huntingford JJ)
Catchwords
Statutes – Supreme Court Act 1979 (NT) – s 21(1) – where Full Court of the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory declined to accept the referral of part of a proceeding – where the Full Court later gave judgment and made orders dismissing the proceeding – whether the Full Court erred in not hearing from the parties before proceeding to give judgment – Housing Act 1982 (NT) – s 23 – power in Minister to determine rents and impose conditions in relation to public housing – where determination overrides rent agreed between the parties to the existing tenancy agreement – whether principles of natural justice intended to apply to Minister's determinations – whether Minister's power conditioned by a requirement to afford procedural fairness – whether affected person or group should be afforded a hearing – whether presumption displaced by public finance and political considerations – where no reasons given – whether determinations legally unreasonable.
Documents*
08/05/2025 Determination D1/2025 (Application referred to Full Court for hearing as on appeal: [2025] HCADisp 94)
08/05/2025 Determination D2/2025 (Special leave granted: [2025] HCADisp 95)
22/05/2025 Notice of appeal (D7/2025)
12/06/2025 Written submissions (Applicants/Appellants)
12/06/2025 Chronology (Applicants/Appellants)
17/07/2025 Written submissions (Respondents)
31/07/2025 Reply
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