Key legal question
Whether the appeal to the Federal Administrative Court was filed within the 30-day deadline.
Extracted holding
The lower court correctly found that the challenged decision was served on 12 February 2008 and that the appeal was posted only on 22 March 2008, so it was late.
Extracted reasoning
The Federal Court accepted the binding factual finding on service, found no obvious inaccuracy, and held that the statutory filing deadline had expired before dispatch of the appeal.