Yan and Orwell

In the matter of *Yan and Orwell*, Justice Cohen of the Supreme Court of New South Wales was required to determine an application for leave to appeal. The husband sought leave to appeal a judgment delivered by Magistrate Wynhousen in the Local Court Family Matters at St. James on 28 November 2006. The precise nature of the dispute before the Local Court is not detailed in the provided text, but it concerned family law matters.

The central legal issue before Justice Cohen was whether the husband had established sufficient grounds to be granted leave to appeal the Magistrate's decision. This involved an assessment of the merits of the proposed appeal and whether there was a reasonably arguable case of error in the original judgment.

Justice Cohen refused and dismissed the husband's application for leave to appeal. The reasons for this decision were reserved for a later date, and the question of costs was also reserved for one month following the publication of those reasons.