New judgments
Fri Jul 21 2023Elwood v Director of Public Prosecutions [2023] NSWSC 772 - "It is not the place of a magistrate to say, "I intellectually fundamentally disagree with [a judge of the Court of Appeal] in the matter that was delivered yesterday". The doctrine of stare decisis requires that judicial officers in lower courts accept the decision of higher courts. Further, to say of judges of this Court that he does not think that they have "ever been met with reality on the ground in relation to these sort of matters", particularly when their decisions had been cited to him, is to bring this Court and the system of justice into disrepute."
Sarah Singh v Priceline Sutherland Pty Ltd [2023] FWC 1321 - unfair dismissal, domestic violence leave