Waterhouse v Racing Appeals Tribunal [2002] NSWSC 1143

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Waterhouse v Racing Appeals Tribunal [2002] NSWSC 1143 CURRENT JURISDICTION: Equity Division FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 4585/02 HEARING DATE(S) : 31/10/02 JUDGMENT DATE : 29 November 2002

Robert William Waterhouse (P) PARTIES : Racing Appeals Tribunal (D1) Thoroughbred Racing Board of New South Wales (D2) JUDGMENT OF : Young CJ in Eq

P L G Brereton SC (P) COUNSEL : S Rushton SC and J D Smith (D2) (1st defendant submits) SOLICITORS : Jeffreys & Associates (P) Watson Mangioni (D2) CATCHWORDS : ADMINISTRATIVE LAW [39]- Racing industry- Three tiered internal tribunal system- What type of appeal lies to final tier- Whether final tier only enabled to act if error at second tier- Whether final tier bound to give warning of serious possibility of intention to increase penalty. PROCEDURE [743]- Declaration- Whether appropriate to make declaration of invalidity of administrative appeal body's decision- Scope of remedy. WORDS & PHRASES- "Appeal"- "Bet"- "Legitimate". Racing Appeals Tribunal Act 1983, s 15 LEGISLATION CITED : Racing Appeals Tribunal Regulation 1999, reg 7 Thoroughbred Racing Board Act 1996, ss 42, 43(1), 45 Anisminic Ltd v Foreign Compensation Commission [1969] 2 AC 147 Attorney General v Luncheon & Sports Club Ltd [1929] AC 400 Australian Gas Light Company v Valuer General (1940) 40 SR (NSW) 126 Automatic Totalisators Ltd v Federal Commissioner of Taxation (1920) 27 CLR 513 Bourke v Hamilton [1977] 1 NSWLR 470 Briginshaw v Briginshaw (1938) 60 CLR 336 Builders Licensing Board v Sperway Constructions (Syd) Pty Ltd (1976) 135 CLR 616 Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Company [1892] 2 QB 484 CDJ v VAJ (1998) 197 CLR 172 Chappell v TCN Channel 9 Pty Ltd (1988) 14 NSWLR 153 Chief of General Staff v Stuart (1995) 58 FCR 299 Coal & Allied Operations Pty Ltd v Australian Industrial Relations Commission (2000) 203 CLR 194 Craig v South Australia (1995) 184 CLR 163 Davison Faulkner Pty Ltd v Totalisator Agency Board [1971] VR 274 De Lury v City of New York 371 NYS (2d) 964 (1975) DPP v Coster (Ashley J, Supreme Court of Victoria, 8.8.1994) Electricity Commission of NSW v Yates (1991) 30 NSWLR 351 Esler v Skill Ball Pty Ltd [1940] VLR 429 Ex parte Australian Sporting Club Ltd; Re Dash (1947) 47 SR (NSW) 283 CASES CITED : Forster v Jododex Australia Pty Ltd (1972) 127 CLR 421 Hope v Bathurst City Council (1980) 144 CLR 1 House v The King (1936) 55 CLR 499 Ironmonger & Co v Dyne (1928) 44 TLR 497 Limako BV v Hentz & Co Inc [1979] 2 Ll LR 23 McManus v Beckham [2002] 4 All ER 497 Moran v McMahon (1985) 3 NSWLR 700 Parker v DPP (1992) 28 NSWLR 282 Petranker v Brown [1984] 2 NSWLR 177 Powell v Streatham Manor Nursing Home [1935] AC 243 Quirey v Queensland Principal Club [1995] 2 Qd R 535 R v Dunphy; Ex parte Maynes (1978) 139 CLR 482 Re Coldham; Ex parte Brideson (No 2) (1990) 170 CLR 267 Strange-Muir v Corrective Services Commission of NSW (1986) 5 NSWLR 234 Toowoomba Foundry Pty Ltd v The Commonwealth (1945) 71 CLR 545 Tote Investors Ltd v Smoker [1968] 1 QB 509 Trenerry v Trenerry (1966) 9 FLR 163 United States v Schenck 126 F (2d) 702 (1942) (Circuit Court of Appeal 2nd Circuit) Victims Compensation Fund Corp v Nguyen (2001) 52 NSWLR 213 Ward v Weeks (1830) 7 Bing 211; 131 ER 81 Warren v Coombes (1979) 142 CLR 531 DECISION : See para 107.