NSW Caselaw
New South Wales Supreme Court
CITATION : Michael Wilson and Partners Limited v Robert Colin Nicholls & Ors [2009] NSWSC 505
HEARING DATE(S) : 4/06/09 JURISDICTION : Equity Division Commercial List
JUDGMENT OF : Einstein J
EX TEMPORE JUDGMENT DATE : 4 June 2009
DECISION : See paragraph 39.
CATCHWORDS : Courts and judges - Procedures to determine claims that a judge should refuse or apprehended bias - Whether reasonable apprehension of bias - Test to be applied - Attributes of the "fair-minded lay observer" - Comments by judges to be considered in context - Danger of judge disqualifying himself or herself too readily
CATEGORY : Procedural and other rulings
Attorney General for Gibraltar v May [1999] 1 WLR 998. Bainton v Rajski (1992) 29 NSWLR 539 Barbosa v Di Meglio [1999] NSWCA 307 Beach Petroleum NL v Johnson (No 2) (1995) 57 FCR 119 Clenae Pty Ltd & Ors v Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd (2000) 205 CLR 337 Dovade Pty Ltd v Westpac Banking Group & Anor (1999) 46 NSWLR 168 Ebner v Official Trustee in Bankruptcy (2000) 205 CLR 337 Gas & Fuel Corporation Superannuation Fund and Ors v Saunders and Anor (1994) 123 ALR 323 Gascor v Ellicott [1997] 1 VR 332 CASES CITED : Hagan v Independent Commission Against Corruption [2003] NSWCA 93 Idoport v National Australia Bank [2004] NSWSC 270 JRL, Re; Ex parte CJL (1986) 161 CLR 342 Kwan v Kang [2003] NSWCA 336 Laws v Australian Broadcasting Tribunal (1990) 170 CLR 70 Livesey v New South Wales Bar Association (1983) 151 CLR 288 Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs v Jia (2001) 205 CLR 507 R v Australian Stevedoring Industry Board; Ex Parte Melbourne Stevedoring Co Ltd (1953) 88 CLR 100 Vakauta v Kelly (1989) 167 CLR 568 Webb & Hay v R (1994) 181 CLR 41
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