Brazel v Vic

• 1. Appeal
  2. › Application for leave to appeal
  3. › Civil appeal
  4. › Real prospect of success test
  5. › Whether proposed grounds have real as opposed to fanciful chance of success
  6. › Supreme Court Act 1986 (Vic), ss 14A, 14C
• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Bias
  3. › Actual bias
  4. › Apprehended bias
  5. › Prior involvement of judge in interlocutory stages
  6. › Whether judge ought to have recused himself from hearing application for approval of settlement deed
  7. › Whether fair-minded lay observer might reasonably apprehend bias
• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Settlement
  3. › Approval of settlement by court
  4. › Prisoner's proceeding
  5. › Whether settlement deed should be approved
  6. › Whether applicant received adequate legal advice before executing deed
  7. › Corrections Act 1986 (Vic), s 104U
• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Self-represented litigants
  3. › Duty of judge to assist unrepresented party
  4. › Whether judge gave appropriate assistance while maintaining judicial neutrality

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