Key legal question
Whether the Federal Court could enter into the administrative law appeal after the advance on costs was not paid in time.
Extracted holding
The appeal was not admitted because the ordered advance was not paid within the set period.
Extracted reasoning
The request for free legal aid had already been rejected as manifestly hopeless, the advance was expressly ordered with a warning of non-entry, and payment was not made even considering the statutory suspension of time limits; therefore Art. 150(4) OG required non-entry.