Do judges only work on business days?

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Editor’s picks

• Australian Investment & Development Pty Ltd v Commissioner of State Revenue [2025] VSCA 47 (26 March 2025)

  [147] Moreover, we also reject as fatuous the submission made in reply by the applicant that somehow it could be inferred that the judge failed to give independent consideration to the matter before him because the trial concluded on 30 November 2023 and judgment was delivered on 13 December 2023 — described by the applicant as being ‘eight business days later’.[139]
   

  • Footnote 139 from the above - “The relevance of this descriptor is illusive, unless it contained some implicit assertion that judges only give independent consideration to relevant matters on business days to the exclusion of non-business days.”
     

• Event - 27 March 2025 - Courting danger: Threats to judicial independence, authority and the administration of justice in Australia - 2025 Seabrook Chambers Public Lecture - the Honourable Justice Lincoln Crowley
   

• Event - 2 April 2025 - Changing attitudes to independence of Australian tribunals: Melbourne University Law Review Annual Lecture - The Hon Emilios Kyrou AO
   

• Daze in Court - 3RD Parties and Rabbit Holes –Think Foley's – Apple Podcasts

  In this Daze in Court episode, Foley's List barristers Rohan Hoult and Simon Fuller sit down alongside solicitor Raffaella Oliva from Hope Earle Lawyers to share and discuss some papers they have written. Raffaella explores adult children seeking access to their parent’s file, drawing from her article Through the Looking Glass. Simon delves into the strategic use of third parties in property proceedings.
   

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