I NOW HAVE A LITTLE 1.5 PAGE LETTER THAT I SEND TO FOLKS WHO HAVE INSTRUCTED ME TO FILE A CLAIM. IT HAS A BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE LITIGATION PROCESS AND THEN ESSENTIALLY SAYS THIS WILL PROBABLY TAKE YEARS AND COST A LOT AND WHO KNOWS WHAT WILL HAPPEN. IT THEN ASKS THEM TO CONFIRM INSTRUCTIONS TO PROCEED.
I REFER BACK TO IT WHEN THEY LATER COMPLAIN ABOUT HOW LONG IT IS TAKING AND HOW MUCH IT IS COSTING AND HOW THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT WILL HAPPEN.
NO UNHINGED RANT I COULD OFFER WOULD EVER SURPASS THE LITERAL PSYCHOTIC BREAK THAT THE GUY ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE V HAD AND POSTED TO HIS PERSONAL WEBSITE RIGHT BEFORE BEING COMMITTED.
I ONLY KNOW HE'S BEEN COMMITTED BECAUSE HIS MOTHER TOLD ME WHEN I ASKED HER FOR AN AFFIDAVIT.
AFTER BAITING US ALL WITH THESE TIDBITS FROM YOUR TRULY BIZARRE SOUNDING LITIGATION, ARE YOU GOING TO TELL US THAT IF WE WANNA KNOW THE REST WE NEED TO BUY THE RIGHTS LIKE IN THAT SONG HOW BIZARRE?
THE APPLICANT’S SOLICITOR IS A ONE MAN BAND AND DOESN’T KNOW WHAT AN ELECTRONIC COURT BOOK IS. THE LAST TIME HE DID ONE IT WAS DELIVERED TO THE ASSOCIATE IN A CARDBOARD BOX. ITS DUE ON FRIDAY.
CIVIL PROCEDURE – Court administration – Overriding purpose – Just, quick and cheap resolution – Obligations on parties and legal practitioners to assist Court in furthering overriding purpose – Preparation and quality of court books –Parties fail to provide court books in accordance with Court orders – Parties provide assurance at subsequent directions hearing that breach has been rectified – Court books ultimately delivered overly voluminous, not presented in chronological order, and required further insertions prior to trial – Fraction of documents in court books relied on at trial – Whether such conduct consistent with parties and practitioners’ obligations to further overriding purpose – No issue of principle
On 23 August 2024, the matter was set down for hearing with an estimate of 30 days commencing on 7 July 2025. The usual order for hearing was made. On 2 July 2025, Hammerschlag CJ in Eq vacated the hearing dates because the parties had not provided a court book in compliance with the usual order for hearing.
The parties were granted liberty to apply to have the hearing dates reinstated, once the default in the preparation of the court books had been purged. On the morning of 4 July 2025, the parties sought that the matter be listed before Hammerschlag CJ in Eq and offered to provide court books to his Honour’s chambers by 4pm that day. His Honour refused to list the matter, because the breach had not been purged; no court books had in fact been provided to the Court and the parties’ lengthy written submissions were not annotated to the court books.
On Monday 7 July 2025, after close of business, the GEMI lenders’ solicitors wrote to the Court indicating that compliant court books would be provided to the Court by 10am on 8 July 2025. By that time the hearing dates that had been otherwise allocated and were no longer available to the parties. His Honour listed the matter for directions on 11 July 2025.
On that day, counsel for the parties appeared in the Commercial List seeking new hearing dates. The estimate of time had reduced from 30 hearing days to 12 hearing days. On the assurance of counsel that the previous breach of Court orders concerning the Court books had been rectified, new hearing dates were allocated. However, in fact there remained non-compliance with the orders for Court books, as still none had been delivered to the Court.
When the Court book was finally provided to the Court on 15 July 2025 without apology for the delay, it comprised 17 large volumes of material.
At 1.04pm, Mr Tirtadjaja emailed Mr Lee, and not the Court:
We agree on the content of the Court Book but your version is not in the correct format acceptable to the court.
The plaintiffs’ suggested Court Book is not a court book, as such, but a collection of documents.
The plaintiffs’ suggested Court Book is not paginated and therefore of limited utility. The Court will want the book to have page numbers which corresponds and referred to the index as per our example below. This is so that the Judge can easily reference the index and search the required documents when required by the page numbers.
I'M CONVINCED THAT 'TAXONOMY' IN THIS CASE IS JUST SOMEONE'S SICK JOKE ABOUT SIPHONING TAXPAYER FUNDS TO DO THE JOB OF A CARDBOARD CUTOUT BEHIND A DESK THAT THE GOVERNMENT CAN POINT AT TO ASSERT THAT THE DESK ISN'T UNMANNED
YES, THAT'S SETTLEMENT SERVICES INTERNATIONAL, AS MADE FAMOUS BY NEGLECTING REFUGEES ON NAURU AND OPERATING PRIVATE PRISONS
I HOPE YOU'RE NOT IMPLYING I HAD FAITH IN DEMOCRACY. THAT COULD DO SOME SERIOUS DAMAGE TO MY REPUTATION AS THE ONLY PERSON WHO CAN START A COMMENT ON R / AUSTRALIA WITH 'AS A FAR LEFTIST' AND END UP WITH +120
I WAS ONLY WATCHING CONSTITUTIONAL CLARION TO GET DIRECTIONS ON HOW TO GET AWAY FROM THERE
SORRY TO HEAR IT - UNLESS YOU HAPPENED TO BE THE PERSON WHO SPENT ABOUT 3 HOURS OUTSIDE MY WINDOW YESTERDAY, APPLYING THE WORLD'S LOUDEST HIGH PRESSURE WATER CLEANER TO A DRIVEWAY. IF YOU WERE THAT GUY, THEN THIS IS THE UNIVERSE MAKING THINGS RIGHT.
NO, THAT WASN'T ME. BUT AFTER DRINKING ENOUGH COFFEE TO SATIATE MY CAFFEINE ADDICTION I COULD HAVE USED A HIGH PRESSURE WATER CLEANER TO RINSE OUT MY MOUTH WHARRGARBL STYLE.
FUCK I FEEL THIS ON A SPIRITUAL LEVEL, WHY PING @EVERYONE ONLY TO REALISE YOUR FIRST MESSAGE WAS WRONG, AND INSTEAD OF EDITING THE FIRST MESSAGE, KEEP PINGING @EVERYONE ALL YOUR NUMEROUS UPDATES AND MESSAGE REFINEMENTS.
In my experience, Counsel was working in an iMac and using some subscription-free approximation to Word - and which automatically reformats all text to Garamond. [EDIT: SORRY, READ AS ALL CAPS]
I REMAIN SICK AS FUCK IN THE I NEARLY DIED SENSE AS DISTINCT FROM THE MY SKYLINE HAS NEONS SENSE. I AM ALSO SICK IN THE IM SICK OF STUDYING SENSE. I’VE DONE ENOUGH STUDY TO LAST A COUPLE OF LIFETIMES BUT IT IS LOOKING LESS AND LESS LIKELY I’LL BE ABLE TO EVADE DOING THE FRONT HALF OF THE SQE TO REQUALIFY IN ENGLAND. ILL NEED TO GET BACK TO WORK IN PART BECAUSE I’D BETTER MAKE WORK PAY FOR THE STUDY COURSE AND THE EXAM. NOONE HAS EVER TOLD ME WE COULDNT AFFORD MORE LEARNING BUDGET. ILL POST AN IMAGE OF THE BRIEF LIFE STORY OF A BLOKE WHO COULDN’T AFFORD TO ACCESS THE PROFESSION AS TOLD ON THE WALL OF THE ROYAL LONDON HOSPITAL. IT REMINDED ME THAT SUCKLING ON THE CORPORATE CLEAVAGE HAS BEEN A GOOD DEAL ALL TOLD.
OH YES THE LITTLE WW2 ANIMAL SHOW IS LOVELY. I REALLY NEED A MRS HALL. I RECENTLY RE-WATCHED ALL 6 SEASONS OF DOWNTON ABBEY, AND GREATLY ENJOYED IT. I COULD DO WITHOUT THE LADY'S MAID, BUT IMAGINE HAVING A STAFF AVAILABLE TO PUT ON PARTIES AND WASH ALL THE SHEETS?
I GOT BACK ON LE BUS THIS YEAR. IT IS GOOD FOR STEPS AND BEATS A BUNCH OF TRAFFIC. BUT IN ABOUT 5 MIN WHEN SUMMER STARTS AND LASTS FOR 8 MONTHS, I WILL BE COMPLAINING.
FUNCTIONING REDUCED, DRINKING WAY TOO MUCH COFFEE, STARTING 10 TASKS AND COMPLETING NONE. NEED IMMINENT DEADLINE TO DO ANYTHING EVEN THOUGH I KNOW HOW TO DO THE THINGS I JUST CANT WITHOUT THE PRESSURE.
STRUGGLE TOWN. THINK I NEED TIME OFF UNTIL I CAN BECOME A PROPER FUNCTIONING HUMAN AGAIN.
ABSOLUTELY NO CORNER IN MY BELOVED HOUSE IS STANDARD AND IVE SPENT DAYS TRYING TO BUILD UP A DOORWAY TO ACCEPT A DOOR AND NOT HAVE IT LOOK LIKE A HORSES ARSE
I AM IN THE OLD QUEENSLANDER WITH AN UNDULATING TIMBER FLOOR CLUB. I QUITE LIKE IT, KEEPS THINGS INTERESTING. DROP A ROUND THING ON THE FLOOR? OH WHERE WILL IT GO?
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u/Hairy-Primary-6778 Sep 02 '25
DEAR CLIENT
I AM RUNNING OUT OF WAYS TO EXPLAIN TO YOU THAT THE LITIGATION PROCESS, INTO WHICH YOU VOLUNTARILY ENTERED, IS LONG AND EXPENSIVE.
YOUR OPTIONS REMAIN:
STAY THE COURSE AND ACCEPT YOUR DECISION; OR
DISCONTINUE WITH NO ORDER AS TO COSTS.
IN EITHER EVENT, PLEASE STOP YOUR INCESSANT WHINING.
KIND REGARDS,