Aon Risk Services Australia Ltd v Australian National University does not establish a universal rule that applications for late amendment or adjournment must always fail; the primary question remains what the interests of justice dictate, assessed by balancing case management considerations against the fair hearing of substantive merits. A trial judge's use of regrettable language (such as 'Fiat justitia, ruat caelum') will not vitiate an otherwise sound exercise of discretion where the reasons as a whole demonstrate proper regard to the Aon principles.
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