Thredgold v Australian Community Pharmacy Authority [1999] FCA 23

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

Thredgold v Australian Community Pharmacy Authority [1999] FCA 23 HEALTH LAW – Approval to supply pharmaceutical benefits – meaning of "the shortest lawful access route" – reasonableness in allowing for pedestrians to cross road at a forty-five degree angle.

National Health Act 1953 (Cth) ss 90, 99K, 99L Administrative Decisions (Judicial Review) Act 1977 (Cth) ss 5, 13

Loveridge v Pharmacy Restructuring Authority (1995) 39 ALD 103 cited Pharmacy Guild of Australia v Australian Community Pharmacy Authority (1996) 70 FCR 462 cited, followed Australian Heritage Commission v Mount Isa Mines Ltd (1995) 133 ALR cited Attorney General (NT) v Hand (1988) 16 ALD 318 distinguished Prasad v Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (1985) 6 FCR 155 followed Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs v Teoh (1995) 128 ALR 364 followed Szelagowicz v Stocker (1994) 35 ALD 16 cited Banias v Australian Community Pharmacy Authority (unreported: Sundberg J: Judgment delivered 18 July 1997) cited Australian Community Pharmacy Authority v Hanna (1996-1997) 24 AAR 213 followed Hanna v Australian Community Pharmacy Authority (unreported: judgment delivered 6 March 1998) cited Associated Provincial Picture Houses Ltd v Wednesbury Corporation [1998] 1 KB 223 cited Counsel for Civil Service Unions v Minister for the Civil Service (1985) 1 AC 374 cited Commonwealth v Pharmacy Guild of Australia (1989) 91 ALR 65 cited Botany Bay Council v Minister of State for Transport and Regional Development (unreported, Finn J, judgment delivered 3 November 1998) cited Karalis v Australian Community Pharmacy Authority (unreported, Goldberg J, judgment delivered 22 December 1998) cited Taveli v Minister for Immigration, Local Government and Ethnic Affairs (1989) 86 ALR 435 cited Ruangrong v Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (1988) 14 ALD 773 cited