Inquisitorial Adjudication: The Duty to Enquire in Merits Review Tribunals

dc.contributor.authorDunlea Smyth, Mark
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-10T22:21:42Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.date.updated2015-12-09T08:57:02Z
dc.description.abstractThis article examines the duty to inquire in Australian merits review tribunals. Following the High Court's recent decision in Minister for Immigration and Citizenship v SZIAI, there has been some uncertainty surrounding the duty's status in a number of Federal Court and Federal Magistrates Court decisions. This article essays a conflicted conceptual basis for the duty to inquire derived from five (competing) aspects of merits review: the institutional, the procedural, the orientational, the substantive and the managerial. These five aspects of merits review underlie the development of the duty to inquire case law. Through an analysis of 25 years of this case law, a set of core principles to guide the confined circumstances in which a duty to inquire should arise is identified. These core principles consist of two threshold requirements and a number of further relevant circumstances concerning statutory structure, the circumstances of the particular hearing and the applicant's situation. The implications of this limited duty to inquire for the system of administrative review are then considered.
dc.identifier.issn0025-8938
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/52325
dc.publisherMelbourne University Law Review Association
dc.sourceMelbourne University Law Review
dc.titleInquisitorial Adjudication: The Duty to Enquire in Merits Review Tribunals
dc.typeJournal article
local.bibliographicCitation.issue1
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage267
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage230
local.contributor.affiliationDunlea Smyth, Mark, ANU College of Law, ANU
local.contributor.authoremailrepository.admin@anu.edu.au
local.contributor.authoruidDunlea Smyth, Mark, u4126660
local.description.embargo2037-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.identifier.absfor180103 - Administrative Law
local.identifier.ariespublicationu4046278xPUB244
local.identifier.citationvolume34
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-84856912753
local.identifier.uidSubmittedByu4046278
local.type.statusPublished Version

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