the associate to Mr Gageler SC has some explaining to do

Hogan v Australian Crime Commission [2010] HCATrans 4 (4 February 2010)

       MR GAGELER SC:     ...If your Honours then go to page 211 it is said after the quotation from Justice Gibbs at about point 3 of the page that that first jurisdictional question involves making was in essence a value judgment - - -

       KIEFEL J:     You will have to forgive us if we are not following quite, Mr Gageler. We have every second page photocopied.

       HAYNE J:     So confine yourself to the odd-numbered pages, would you Mr Solicitor, and we will follow you.

       MR GAGELER:     I am really sorry because the crunch point is on an even page.

       HAYNE J:     An even-numbered page - we are in trouble.

I blame the schools

Alphapharm Pty Ltd v H Lundbeck A/S & Anor [2009] HCATrans 324 (11 December 2009)
       MR SHAVIN QC: What her Honour neglects to do is that she neglects to look at the second criteria in section 70(2)(a) - - -
       FRENCH CJ: Criterion.
       MR SHAVIN: Criterion. I apologise, your Honour.
       FRENCH CJ: That is all right.
       MR SHAVIN: It is modern education, I am sorry, your Honour.

self rep gives it to Hayne J

Ferdinands v His Honour Lander J & Ors [2009] HCATrans 194 (12 August 2009)

[Following the ex temp decision of Hayne J...]
       MR FERDINANDS: Could I just ask you a question, your Honour?

       HAYNE J: Yes, Mr Ferdinands, you may ask.

       MR FERDINANDS: Yes, thank you, your Honour. Just a quick point so that everybody in this country understands. You are saying that the privacy of an individual is wholly and solely irrelevant and that the transfer of private information between government departments of individuals is allowable in law and that that person does not need to have any consent or any knowledge of such actions undertaken by the government, whether it be State, federal or Territory.

       HIS HONOUR: My reasons for judgment, Mr Ferdinands, speak for themselves. I do not propose to add to them. Call the third matter for hearing.

       MR FERDINANDS: Just a simple yes or no, your Honour.

       HIS HONOUR: Sit down, Mr Ferdinands.

Gummow J on the awesome power of the HCA

Bruton Holdings Pty Limited (In Liquidation) v Commissioner of Taxation & Anor [2009] HCATrans 138 (19 June 2009):

        MR SLATER: …. There are two firm and decisive judgments of the Full Federal Court which, as this Court has many times said, is the final court of appeal except in exceptional circumstances.
        GUMMOW J: I do not believe any court is the final court of appeal in anything, Mr Slater, and that idea that was once around I can assure you is no longer around.
        MR SLATER: The taxpayer will be happy to hear that, your Honour.
        GUMMOW J: [fp: in a loud booming voice] No one is immune from our possible gaze and attention.

[and later]

        GUMMOW J: … If you appear in the High Court everything else yields. When I was at the Bar, that was the rule.