A stay pending appeal will be refused where the appeal has no prospect of success. Purported constitutional contentions that are trivial, unarguable, frivolous or vexatious — including 'sovereign citizen' style arguments that courts are not duly constituted or that judicial officers are not officers of the Crown — do not give rise to genuine constitutional issues requiring notification under s 78B of the Judiciary Act 1903 (Cth).
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