Goldberg v Stocker & County Court of Victoria

• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Self-represented litigants
  3. › Use of Bar table
  4. › Whether self-represented litigant has right to use Bar table
  5. › Inherent power of judge to regulate proceedings
  6. › Whether denial of Bar table access constitutes denial of procedural fairness
• 1. Administrative Law
  2. › Procedural fairness
  3. › Fair hearing
  4. › Self-represented litigants
  5. › Whether manner of conducting proceedings denied fair opportunity to present case
• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Apprehended bias
  3. › Seating arrangements in court
  4. › Whether positioning self-represented litigant away from Bar table while opposing counsel sat at Bar table gave rise to reasonable apprehension of bias
  5. › Fair-minded lay observer test
• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Recusal
  3. › Application for recusal
  4. › Whether judge required to recuse on basis of having previously decided cases against applicant
  5. › Duty of judge to sit when jurisdiction regularly invoked

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