Federal Court. In an FCA decision we recently summarised, the Minister's application for leave to appeal from a decision where he was ordered to answer an interrogatory aimed at determining whether he had turned his mind to a decision was dismissed. In a different case extracted in this article, one of the questions to the FCA was whether it should use its discretion to refuse to grant leave to the Applicant for an interlocutory application seeking a very similar interrogatory, because of the “impracticalities” presented by the possibility of portfolio Ministers being overwhelmed with interrogatories.
The Federal Court (FCA) answered that question as follows:
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