Read the full judgment text of HCA 009282/2000 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 5 October 2000.
1. On further consideration of the whole position in this case, it seems that I was wrong to hold on 3 October 2000, as I did, that it was appropriate for the plaintiff to proceed ex parte on notice. There is not the kind of urgency here which requires that "not even five minutes warning should be given to the other side". There is quite simply no evidence of some impending incident which needs to be stopped by this means. There is an ongoing process, and the proper way to stop it is by a decisi