Catchwords:

APPEALS — application for leave to appeal — where proceedings stayed until payment of costs of earlier proceedings raising same claims of wrongdoing — where primary judge held it was an abuse of process to pursue current proceedings for so long as costs orders remained unsatisfied — no issue of principle, question of public importance or reasonably clear injustice identified — leave refused

COURTS AND JUDGES — bias — application for disqualification of the presiding judge for apprehended bias — where junior counsel and the son of the General Counsel of the respondent had previously worked as researchers at the Court with the presiding judge — whether reasonable apprehension of bias by reason of past professional relationship — application dismissed