The Hon. Mr. Justice Kirk Anderson

Breach of statutory duty - Occupiers liability – Negligence -  Contract - Slip and fall on wet stairway at hotel resort – Whether wet stairway constituted an unusual danger – Definition of occupier - Whether defendants. were joint occupiers of hotel resport - Res Ipsa Loquitur

Damages for detinue or conversion  - Negligence - Need for claimant to prove unqualified demand for return of item alledgedly unlawfully detained – Burden of proof of 'positive defence' - Burden of proof as regards issue of mitigation of damages.

Negligence - Traffic accident - Two vehicles approaching separate sstop signs at separate intersections - Claim for damages for negligence - Ancillary claim for damages for negligence - Duty of driver when vehicle being driven by that driver has right of way - Countercliam and ancillary claim - Whether countercliam and ancillary claim should both be comprised in a single Court document. 

Application for summary judgment - Registration (Strata Titles) Act - Whether claim should have been instituted against strata corporation rather than the 1st. defendant - Legal approach to be adopted by court in respect of summary judgment applications - Whether strata plan was a duly regsitered strata corporation.

Breach of contract - False imprisonment - Malicious prosecution - Claims for damages for false imprisonment and malicious prosecution instituted against civilian complainant

False imprisonment – Malicious prosecution  – Whether claimant can be held liable as a private individual who neither arrested, imprisoned criminally charged nor directly prosecuted the claimant – Application to strike out claimant's statement of case.

Civil Procedure Rules (CPR) , R. 27.8 (4) – Interpretation – Need for compliance with Case Managment timetables – Importance of attendance of party at Case Management Conference – Exercise of Court's discretion.

Application to set aside default judgment - Pre-eminent consideration is whether affidavit evidence of applicant and disclosed a defence a defence which has a realistic prospect of success

Court's consideration as to whether it should make a striking out order on its own inititative - Distinction between application to strike out on ground that statement of case of defendant discloses no reasonable basis for defendint the claim and an application for summary judgment on ground that defence has no realistic prospect of success - Summary judgment cannot be obtained against the crown - Striking out order only to be made in plain and obvious cases

Judicial review – Application for certiorari and mandamus – Issue of bias – Actual bias – Real likelihood of bias – Presumptive bias – Waiver of bias – Whether magistrate obliged to preside over case in circumstance where bias waived by disputing litigants – Basis upon which exercise of judicial discretion can be successfully challenged in judicial review proceedings