Federal Court of Australia
FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA
Wotton v State of Queensland (No 8) [2017] FCA 639
File number: QUD 535 of 2013
Judge: MORTIMER J
Date of judgment: 6 June 2017
Catchwords: PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE – representative proceeding – racial discrimination – group comprising Indigenous community on Palm Island – subgroup comprising persons affected by arrests, entries and searches by officers of Special Emergency Response Team – declaration of questions of law and fact common to the claims of the applicants and the group and subgroup members
Legislation: Australian Human Rights Commission Act 1986 (Cth), s 46PO Federal Court of Australia Act 1976 (Cth), ss 33Z, 33ZB Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth), s 9 Public Safety Preservation Act 1986 (Qld)
Cases cited: Bulsey v State of Queensland [2015] QCA 187 Haslam v Money For Living (Aust) Pty Ltd (No 2) [2008] FCA 1832 Peterson v Merck Sharpe & Dohme (Aust) Pty Ltd (No 5) [2010] FCA 605 Wotton v State of Queensland (No 5) [2016] FCA 1457 Wotton v State of Queensland (No 6) [2017] FCA 245 Wotton v State of Queensland [2015] FCA 910
Date of hearing: Determined on the papers
Date of last submissions: 19 May 2017
Registry: Queensland
Division: General Division
National Practice Area: Administrative and Constitutional Law and Human Rights
Category: Catchwords
Number of paragraphs: 45
Counsel for the Applicants: Dr KP Hanscombe QC with Mr DG Guidolin and Mr J Creamer
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