Leave to appeal to the Court of Appeal from a Supreme Court decision on appeal from the Local Court will be refused where the proposed grounds do not raise issues of principle, questions of general public importance, or reasonably clear injustice, particularly where costs are already disproportionate to the amount in dispute. In appeals on questions of law from the Local Court under s 39 of the Local Court Act 2007 (NSW), the appellant must identify the specific questions of law, not merely assert errors of law.
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