Michael Wilson & Partners Ltd v Emmott (No 4)

• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Security for costs
  3. › Review of interlocutory decision of single Judge of Appeal
  4. › Applicant incorporated in British Virgin Islands
  5. › No evidence of Australian assets against which costs order could readily be executed
  6. › Whether error established on review under s 46(4)
  7. › Supreme Court Act 1970 (NSW), s 46(4)
• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Adjournment
  3. › Application to adjourn hearing of review of security for costs orders
  4. › Whether decision of English court likely to alter outcome
  5. › Proportionality of costs to importance of subject matter
  6. › Civil Procedure Act 2005 (NSW), ss 56, 60
• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Apprehended bias
  3. › Recusal
  4. › Whether ground of review that judge should have recused himself was made out
  5. › Solicitor declined to press recusal application after disclosure and adjournment
  6. › Whether ground could be maintained on review
• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Legal practitioners
  3. › Duties of solicitors
  4. › Solicitor maintaining baseless ground of review
  5. › Solicitor acting as both witness and advocate
  6. › Referral to Legal Services Commissioner

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