Andre McKechnie v Vic

• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Discovery
  3. › Request for discovery
  4. › Overly broad categories
  5. › Whether judge should have ordered discovery in more confined form
  6. › Whether breadth of request justified refusal in entirety
  7. › Civil Procedure Act 2010 (Vic), s 55(1), (2)(a)(ii)
• 1. Courts and Judges
  2. › Adequacy of reasons
  3. › Oral reasons refusing discovery
  4. › Whether reasons sufficiently elucidated reasoning when read with the request for discovery
• 1. Courts and Judges
  2. › Apprehended bias
  3. › Judge hearing multiple proceedings brought by same litigant
  4. › Series of adverse interlocutory decisions
  5. › Whether fair-minded lay observer would apprehend bias
  6. › Whether adverse outcomes alone sufficient to establish apprehended bias
  7. › Ebner v Official Trustee in Bankruptcy (2000) 205 CLR 337
• 1. Appeal
  2. › Leave to appeal
  3. › Interlocutory decisions
  4. › Practice and procedure
  5. › Residual discretion to refuse leave
  6. › Whether application totally without merit
  7. › Supreme Court Act 1986 (Vic), s 14D(3)

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