Federal Court of Australia
IN_THE FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA VI A_ DISTRICT REGISTRY
GENERAL DIVISION
No. VG 305 of 1991
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BETWEEN:
HELL'S ANGELS MOTORCYCLE CLUB INCORPO Applicant
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THE HONOURABLE M. DUFFY, ATTORNEY-GENERAL
First Respondent
- and - THE HONOURABLE G.L. HAND, STATE MINISTER FOR IMMIGRAT LOCAL RNMENT AND ETHNIC AFFAIRS Second Respondent Coram: Black C.J. Place: Melbourne Date: 18 November, 1991.
EX _TEMPORE REASONS FOR JUDGMENT
This is an application by the applicant in matter VG No. 305 of 1991, Hell's Angels Motorcycle Club Incorporated, that I should exercise the power conferred by s.20(1)(a) of the Federal Court Act 1976 to order that the matter be heard by a Full Court. This application relates to a second application before me, which is that the matter should be heard at the same time and before the same justices who will hear the
expedited appeal in matter VG No. 302 of 1991.
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That appeal will now be heard on 25 November, and the Court has allocated, if necessary, 2 days for the hearing. The estimate of the parties is that the hearing will occupy a day- and-a-half and that estimate seems to be accurate, but only on the basis that the parties put their arguments concisely and that there are, to some extent in any event, written
submissions.
The substantive application in matter VG No. 305 of 1991, raises several very important issues and I would be satisfied that it is a matter of sufficient importance to justify the giving of a direction that it be heard by a Full Court if that were otherwise appropriate. However, as Mr. Graham Q.C. for the respondents points out, the power under s.20(1)(a) is discretionary and one of the factors that has to be taken into account in the exercise of that discretion is whether it is
practicable for a matter to be heard by a Full Court.
There would be little point in having a matter heard by a Full Court, urgently, so that it might be heard at the same time as another matter, if there would not be sufficient time available, either to the parties or to the Court, to deal with either matter in the way in which, having regard to its
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