In the matter of an application by GAYE LUCK for leave to appeal

[2022] HCASL 177

in the matter of an application by GAYE LUCK for leave to appeal

[2022] HCASL 177
M80/2020

1. On 4 August 2020, Bell J refused the applicant's ex parte application for leave to issue or file a proposed writ of summons in M19 of 2020 on the grounds that the applicant appeared to be seeking to challenge decisions of the Federal Court of Australia and that to permit the applicant to prosecute the proceeding would be to permit her to bypass the ordinary mechanisms of appeal and potentially avoid the restrictions imposed by statute on appeals to this Court from certain decisions of the Federal Court[1]; the particulars given of the proposed claims were incoherent; no arguable basis was disclosed for any of the relief sought and it would be an abuse of the process of the Court if the matter were permitted to proceed. An appeal to this Court would enjoy no prospect of success. Leave to appeal should be refused.

   [1]          Federal Court of Australia Act 1976 (Cth), s 33(1) and (4B)(a).

2. Pursuant to r 41.08.1 of the High Court Rules 2004 (Cth), we direct the Registrar to draw up, sign and seal an order dismissing the application.

P.A. Keane
13 October 2022 M.M. Gordon