NSW Caselaw
New South Wales Court of Appeal
CITATION: POLGLAZE v THE VETERINARY PRACTITIONERS BOARD OF NSW [2010] NSWCA 4 This decision has been amended. Please see the end of the judgment for a list of the amendments.
HEARING DATE(S): 03/02/2010
JUDGMENT DATE: 3 February 2010
JUDGMENT OF: Beazley JA at 16, 21; Basten JA at 17; Handley AJA at 1
EX TEMPORE JUDGMENT DATE: 3 February 2010
DECISION: Summons for leave to appeal is dismissed and the applicant is to pay the respondent's costs of the proceedings in this Court.
CATCHWORDS: APPEAL - leave to appeal - statutory construction - no error of law identified - no procedural error - further review not warranted. - PROFESSIONS - Veterinary Practitioners - unsatisfactory professional conduct - duty to give estimate of cost - whether meaning of "veterinary services" question of law - PROFESSIONS - discipline - finding of unsatisfactory professional conduct - failure to give estimate of cost - Briginshaw principle not applicable because matter not of sufficient gravity - principle not applicable because primary facts not in dispute.
LEGISLATION CITED: Veterinary Practice Act 2003, s 91C
CATEGORY: Principal judgment
Calvin v Carr [l980] AC 57 CASES CITED: Clisdell v Commissioner of Police (1993) 31 NSWLR 555 Hope v Bathurst City Council [l980] HCA 16; l44 CLR 1
PARTIES: Dr Kevin Polglaze - Applicant/Appellant The Veterinary Practitioners Board of NSW - Respondent
FILE NUMBER(S): CA 298388/2009
COUNSEL: Ms M Allars - Applicant/Appellant Ms M Perry QC & Mr B O'Donnell - Respondent
SOLICITORS: Mahony Dominic Lawyers - Applicant/Appellant Dibbs Barker Lawyers - Respondent
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