Wattmaster Alco Pty Ltd & Ors v The Honourable J. Button [1986] FCA 599

CATCHWORDS

ADMINISTRATIVE LAW - Customs - Dumping - Declaration of Minister applying to certain goods s.8 of the Customs Tariff (Anti-Dumping) Act 1975 ~- Declaration held invalid and set aside - Damping duty paid by appellants pursuant to declaration prior te decision to set aside - Question of date from which declaration should be set aside —- Whether any error ef principle by trial judge in setting aside decision as from date of judgment — Whether there is any presumption as to the @ate from which 2 decision should be set aside - Common law position as toa status of invalid decision — Relevance of that gasition - Whether Court. should order Minister to refund

-Bdministrative Decisions (Judicial Review) Act L977 s.16

'€ustoms Tariff (Antzr-Dumping} Act 1975 s.& customs Act Act 19@L s.L6é7T

House v_The Ki (I936) SS CLR 49%,-NSorbis v Norbis (1986) 60 ALJR 355, Minister for Aboriginal Affairs v Peko-Wallsend Led igr9ae} 66 ALR 299, Commissioner for Railwa ¥ Cavanough *€EQ35} 53. CLR 226, Rv Greater London Roonerte ex parte ;Blackburn [I976] Lk WOR 550, Anisminic Ltd v Foreign ensation Commission [1969] 2 AC 147, Re Racal

Communications Led (19Sl} ac 374, Smith v Bast Elloe Rural 'District Counczrk [1956] AC 736, Hoffman—-La Roche & Co v 'Secreta of State for Trade and Industry [1975] Ac 295,

ain ¥ Pernando [196/] 2 AC 347, Calvin v Carr [1980] aC srk Blair v curran (7939) 62 CLR 464, Jackson Vv Goldsmith . petasay SL CLE 446, Mason. w State of New South Wales (1959) 102 B. - ROS. Cam anc Sons Pty Limited + Ramsay TL960) 104 CLR 247, #BeTt. Bros Pty Eimited v Shire of Serpentine-Jarrahdale (1963)

2a CER 137, Bw Secretary of State for Environment; Ex parte Councrl [1983] kL WER 524r {(1984] L WLR

NSW G.163 of 1996 WATTMASTER ALCO PTY LIMITED s ORS v THE HONOURABLE JOHN NORMAN BOttON. EEE