It happened again to us last week. A judge with a whole day to spend hearing a complex interim issue told the parties that if the hearing goes beyond 4:30pm that the issue will be part-heard before him and not completed until December. He had not read the material and clearly had little appetite to do so. He told the parties that his 4:30pm deadline (admittedly knock-off time) arose due to the need to collect his wife from a shopping centre.
It gets harder and harder to recommend to clients to use the court process, but some have no alternative.
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