The case applies settled principles governing security for costs on appeal under r 772 UCPR (Qld). Where an appellant is impecunious and the prospects of overturning discretionary judgments are slender, security for costs will ordinarily be ordered. The consideration that a personal plaintiff should not be denied access to the courts carries less weight in the appeal context where the party has already had their day in court.
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