A trial judge who issues a memorandum after judgment is reserved identifying deficiencies in a party's case and proposing to reconvene crosses the line between Bench and Bar table, and such a memorandum will inevitably taint any reopened proceedings. The four recognised classes permitting reopening (fresh evidence, inadvertent error, mistaken apprehension of facts, mistaken apprehension of law) were confirmed, and the overriding test remains whether the justice of the case as a whole favours reopening.
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