Flooding in Sydney court

Burst water main causes flooding at the Downing Centre, HCA grants special leave to appeal Trustees of the Roman Catholic Church for the Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle v AA [2025] NSWCA 72.

June 17, 2025

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    [24] On 26 August 2020, when representing a client in a criminal matter, the respondent sent an email to the associate to Crow J. As it turns out, the email was misdirected; it was intended for the Office of the Director of Public Prosecution. In any event, this is what the respondent wrote:

    “God it is impossible to deal with you people. In future I will not try. I will just set everything down for trial and then go to the CCA to correct the errors.

    I will revert to having absolutely no contact with your office on contested matters.

    I will raise this matter with Crow J on Friday.

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    Doug Winning”

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