Renshaw v New South Wales Lotteries Corporation Pty Ltd

[2021] NSWCA 41

NSW Court of Appeal

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Catchwords

1. Appeals
2. › Procedure
3. › Time limits
4. › Extension of time to appeal
5. › Where appeal initially discontinued without satisfactory explanation
6. › Where substance of appeal has no merit
7. › Application refused
1. Practice and Procedure
2. › Pro bono referral
3. › Interests of the administration of justice
4. › Where applicant impecunious and of limited capacity
5. › Where previous pro bono assistance provided on multiple occasions
6. › Where complaints made regarding previous legal representatives
7. › Where absence of apparent merit
8. › Referral refused
9. › Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 (NSW), r 7.36
1. Practice and Procedure
2. › Suppression and non-publication orders
3. › Where orders not appropriate at interlocutory stage
4. › No orders made
5. › Court Suppression and Non-publication Orders Act 2010 (NSW), s 7
1. Gaming and Wagering
2. › Public lottery
3. › Unclaimed prize
4. › Applicant claiming to have entered winning numbers but unable to produce ticket
5. › Limitation period for misleading or deceptive conduct claims
6. › Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth), s 82
7. › Fair Trading Act 1987 (NSW), s 68

Quick Take

Courts will consider the litigant's history with previous pro bono lawyers and the risk of conduct complaints when evaluating pro bono referral requests, and absence of merit weighs heavily against referral even where the litigant is impecunious.