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McHUGH J:
There is no precise decision to that effect, is there? It may have been a practice and there was no objection taken in those cases but - - -
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MR DOUGLAS:
Well, there was some pretty good counsel in some of those, your Honour. I saw one of them, Vesta's Case, which had Sir William Deane, Mr Justice McLelland and Mr Justice Beaumont and also, I think, it was presided over by Justice Street. I mean, some of the others like the Inche - I cannot think of the name of it - Case came from the Strait Settlements and one can, perhaps, explain that.
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KIRBY J:
I hope we are going to decide this matter on points other than the counsel who appeared in cases. I mean, this is a very important issue of principle and in your principle, you have driven a team of camels into the private communication between a client and his lawyer, and that is something which you will need very strong authority or very strong principle to convince me this Court should uphold.
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MR DOUGLAS:
Your Honour, the team of camels is being driven, if we may say so, by the applicant.
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SOURCE:
BT Australasia Pty Ltd and ANOR v State of New South Wales S111/1998 [1998] HCATrans 450 (3 December 1998)
