Lawful Decision Making: Walking the Burning Bridge

Overview

Sometimes you don’t know what you should know until it is too late. This makes it imperative to have a lawfully sound and fair process to underpin your decision making and to minimise the possibility of decisions being successfully challenged. Unlawful administrative decisions can have wide ranging and negative impacts on everyone involved.

Course Content

This one-day intensive Master Class on lawful decision making offers a practical focus to assist you to apply relevant legal principles, evaluate evidence and understand the requirements for a “statement of reasons”.

Course Outcomes

By the end of this course attendees should be able to:

• understand the tension between the obligation to be responsive to government priorities and respect for the law and the system of government
• understand the importance of processes involved in the making of administrative decisions;
• understand the legal frameworks enlivened in the making of administrative decisions;
• be able to apply the principles of natural justice; and
• understand core principles involved in the evaluation of evidence.

Benefits to your organisation

• enhance your reputation as one that respects and abides by the law;
• reduce litigation and settlement costs; and
• reduce the negative impact on all involved in a poor decision making processes.

Benefits to you

• improved confidence in your lawful decision making ability; and
• decreased likelihood of your decisions being found unlawful.