Overview

• Mark Latham sought to remove senior legal member Mandy Tibbey from his NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal case over alleged bias linked to her transgender rights commentary.
• Independent MP Alex Greenwich filed the NCAT proceedings accusing Latham’s homophobic tweet and follow-up remarks of constituting homosexual vilification and sexual harassment.
• The NCAT action builds on a recent Federal Court defamation ruling that ordered Latham to pay Greenwich $140,000 over the same homophobic content.
• Tibbey ruled that her previous analysis of transgender issues does not compromise her impartiality, stating the case does not involve transgender matters.
• Latham’s legal team plans to apply for dismissal of the NCAT case on jurisdictional grounds, arguing the primary tweet was posted in the ACT.