Pacific Century Production Pty Ltd v Watson [2001] FCA 1139

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

Pacific Century Production Pty Ltd v Watson [2001] FCA 1139

ADMINISTRATIVE LAW - Judicial Review - Quarantine - citrus and grape plants ordered into quarantine - opinion of quarantine officer that plants likely to be infected with imported diseases - quarantinable diseases - nature of opinion to be formed - whether absence of evidence before quarantine officer - whether risk of infection remote - must be a real possibility of the existence of disease - latency of diseases - underlying premise that plant material imported - whether requirements of procedural fairness met - whether requirements of procedural fairness should be limited STATUTES - meaning to be given to a word will be affected by its statutory context - consideration of objects of statute WORDS AND PHRASES - "likely" Statutes Administrative Decisions (Judicial Review) Act 1977(Cth) ss 5(1)(h), 5(3)(b) Quarantine Act 1908 (Cth) ss 4(b), 5, 16A, 35, 55A, 67(1) Quarantine Proclamation of 1998 s 58 Cases Annetts v McCann (1990) 170 CLR 596 Australian Telecommunications Commission v Krieg Enterprises Pty Ltd (1975) 14 SASR 303 Bailey v Forestry Commission of New South Wales(1989) 67 LGRA 200 Boughey v The Queen (1986) 161 CLR 10 Drummoyne Municipal Council v Roads and Traffic Authority of New South Wales (1989) 67 LGRA 155 Fares Rural Meat and Livestock Co Pty Ltd v Australian Meat and Live-Stock Corporation & Ors (1990) 96 ALR 153 Jarasius v Forestry Commission of New South Wales (No 1) (1988) 71 LGRA 79 Kioa v West (1985) 159 CLR 550 Sheen v Fields Pty Ltd (1984) 58 ALJR 93 PACIFIC CENTURY PRODUCTION PTY LTD v STEPHEN RONALD WATSON Q 169 OF 2001 KIEFEL J 17 AUGUST 2001 BRISBANE

IN THE FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

QUEENSLAND DISTRICT REGISTRY Q 169 OF 2001

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