Hunter Valley Developments Pty Ltd v Cohen is a 1984 decision of the Federal Court of Australia about the discretion to allow applications for review an administrative decision under section 11[1] of the Administrative Decisions (Judicial Review) Act 1977 that were made later that the statutory limits allowed.

[2] In 1981 Hunter Valley Developments Pty Ltd applied for a "10BA" tax incentive for creation of a feature-length film.

In 1984, the company applied for judicial review of the decision.

By 1984, the respondent was Barry Cohen, then the Minister of the Department of Home Affairs and Environment.

[3] In a decision that aggregated previous case law, Justice Murray Wilcox[4] identified six issues to be considered: The principles in the case have been adopted to apply to extension of time applications in courts and tribunals including the Supreme Court of Queensland, the Commonwealth Administrative Appeals Tribunal and the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal.