Thursday, 5 March 2026
Description
Attend and earn 0.5 CPD unit in Substantive Law
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
* This interactive online recording includes questions and quizzes requiring critical thinking about the topics, so you have no annual limits to the number of points/hours you can claim with this format of learning. Please verify with your CPD rules
Chair
Georgina Rhodes, Barrister, Ah Ket Chambers
Judicial Review and Accountability
- Overview of judicial review principles under the ADJR Act and common law
- Common grounds for challenge: jurisdictional error, improper purpose, unreasonableness
- Standard of review and remedies available
- Lessons from recent Federal Court and High Court decisions
- Review of recent high-profile cases (like Sofronoff v ACT Integrity Commission) to illustrate limits of reviewability and the rule of law in administrative systems.
Presented by Nilanka Goonetillake, Barrister, Aickin Chambers
Presenters
Georgina Rhodes, Barrister, Ah Ket Chambers
Georgina practices predominantly in public and administrative law, regulatory and criminal matters, but accepts briefs in a range of other matters including general commercial, civil and common law. She has a broad practice with experience in commissions and inquiries, coronial inquests, compulsory examinations for investigative bodies, regulatory and general crime, disciplinary matters, and merits and judicial review. She has a particular interest in matters where commercial and common law intersect with criminal law and public law. Georgina has particular expertise in government regulation. She has undertaken a wide variety of advice work (both led and unled) for private and government clients in respect of administrative decision making, statutory interpretation and complex public law litigation. Georgina has a background in matters relating to children and vulnerable people, including; youth justice, crimes mental impairment, guardianship, NDIS, reportable conduct scheme, Working with Children Clearances and a Public Inquiry into institutional abuse. As such Georgina welcomes briefs relating to vulnerable clients, including common law institutional abuse claims. Georgina appears (both led and unled) in various State and Commonwealth Tribunals and Courts. She has practiced in Victoria and Tasmania and accepts briefs from all jurisdictions.
Nilanka Goonetillake, Barrister, Aickin Chambers
Nilanka is a commercial and public law barrister with a specialty in employment and discrimination. Nilanka practices in a broad range of commercial disputes including insolvency, contract disputes and consumer claims. Nilanka’s employment law practice includes general protections claims, underpayments and civil penalty provisions under the Fair Work Act. Nilanka’s public law practice includes claims concerning statutory interpretation, judicial reviews and anti-discrimination legislation. Since coming to the Bar, Nilanka has practised in a range of commercial and public law matters.
