Federal Court of Australia
FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA
Gibson v Rivers-McCombs (No 2) [2014] FCA 540 Citation: Gibson v Rivers-McCombs (No 2) [2014] FCA 540
Parties: RUSSELL KURT GIBSON, HOPEVALE ABORIGINAL SHIRE COUNCIL and DHUBBI WARRA ABORIGINAL CORPORATION v STEPHEN RIVERS-MCCOMBS (AS DELEGATE OF THE NATIVE TITLE REGISTRAR), HOPEVALE CONGRESS ABORIGINAL CORPORATION, FRANCIS DEEMAL, VICTOR GIBSON and BRIAN COBUS
File number: QUD 602 of 2011
Judge: DOWSETT J
Date of judgment: 26 May 2014
Catchwords: PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE – costs – determination of – where judicial review proceedings arose out of decision to register an Indigenous Land Use Agreement – where Native Title Act 1993 (Cth) s 85A modifies expectation that costs follow the event – where applicant lacked standing – where alleged grounds of review lacked any merit – whether applicants' conduct unreasonable.
Legislation: Native Title Act 1993 (Cth) s 85A
Date of hearing: Heard on the Papers
Date of last submissions: 3 April 2014
Place: Brisbane (Heard in Cairns)
Division: GENERAL DIVISION
Category: Catchwords
Number of paragraphs: 11
Solicitor for the Applicants: Bottoms English Lawyers
Solicitor for the First Respondent: Holding Redlich
Solicitor for the Second Respondent: Cape York Land Council Aboriginal Corporation
IN THE FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA QUEENSLAND DISTRICT REGISTRY GENERAL DIVISION QUD 602 of 2011
BETWEEN: RUSSELL KURT GIBSON
First Applicant
HOPEVALE ABORIGINAL SHIRE COUNCIL
Second Applicant
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