Ritson v Registrar of the Federal Court of Australia [2019] FCA 1835

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

Ritson v Registrar of the Federal Court of Australia [2019] FCA 1835 File number: NSD 1219 of 2019

Judge: RARES J

Date of judgment: 11 September 2019

Cases cited: Burrell v R (2008) 238 CLR 218 Dib Group Pty Limited v Coolabah Tree Australia-Wide Pty Limited [2011] FCAFC 57 Ritson v Commissioner of Police, New South Wales Police Force (No 3) [2019] FCA 853 Taylor v Taylor (1979) 143 CLR 1 Walton v Gardiner (1993) 177 CLR 378

Date of hearing: 11 September 2019

Registry: New South Wales

Division: General Division

National Practice Area: Administrative and Constitutional Law and Human Rights

Category: No Catchwords

Number of paragraphs: 11

Counsel for the Applicant: The Applicant appeared in person

Counsel for the Respondent: The Respondent did not appear

Counsel for the Amicus Curiae: Mr P Afshar

Solicitor for the Amicus Curiae: Coleman Greig lawyers

ORDERS NSD 1219 of 2019

BETWEEN: BRENDAN RITSON Applicant

AND: REGISTRAR OF THE FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA Respondent

JUDGE: RARES J DATE OF ORDER: 11 SEPTEMBER 2019

THE COURT ORDERS THAT:

1. The application be dismissed as an abuse of the process of the Court. Note: Entry of orders is dealt with in Rule 39.32 of the Federal Court Rules 2011.

REASONS FOR JUDGMENT

(REVISED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT) RARES J: 1 This is an application for judicial review of the decision of a judicial registrar to reject for filing an interlocutory application that Brendan Ritson filed three weeks after a judge of the Court, on 6 June 2019, exercising the appellate jurisdiction, dismissed Mr Ritson's appeal from a decision of the Federal Circuit Court with costs: Ritson v Commissioner of Police, New South Wales Police Force (No 3) [2019] FCA 853.