The President of the Queensland Court of Appeal directed the registrar to take no further steps in relation to a purported notice of appeal from the Magistrates Court, holding that there is no right of appeal from the Magistrates Court to the Court of Appeal and that the document filed was both incoherent and incompetent. The underlying convictions related to failure to comply with directions under the Census and Statistics Act 1905 (Cth).
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