› Disqualification for interest or bias — actual bias — apprehended bias — former professional association with party's solicitors
Procedure
› State and Territory Courts
› Inherent and general statutory powers — dismissal for want of prosecution — failure to attend hearings
Criminal Law
› Appeal
› Magistrates appeal — appeal to Supreme Court — self-represented appellant — failure to prosecute
Road Traffic
› Offences
› Stopping in bicycle lane — Australian Road Rules (SA) r 187 — whether bicycle lane duly marked
Quick Take
1The SA Supplement to Australian Standard AS 1742.9 (Bicycle Facilities) does not create enforceable defences to traffic infringements under the Australian Road Rules (SA); to have legal force, such a standard would need to be made, approved or adopted under an Act pursuant to s 4 of the Legislation Interpretation Act 2021 (SA).
2A former professional association between a judge and a party's solicitors, which ceased decades earlier, does not establish a logical connection capable of giving rise to apprehended bias under the Ebner test.
3An appellate court may dismiss an appeal for want of prosecution where the appellant has ignored court orders, failed to attend listed hearings without proper explanation, and taken a cavalier attitude to the conduct of the appeal.
