The preliminary issue was released in June 1977.
The judgment given after the trial of a preliminary issue is not interlocutory even though quantum is still to be tried.
Phillips J. held on a preliminary issue that the plaintiff had a cause of action.
The second modus operandus of the court are the preliminary issues.
In the event, the question of the existence of a duty of care was considered as a preliminary issue.
In the same year, the court also determined a preliminary issue for a petition concerning the election return for Greenslopes.
The assistant recorder determined the preliminary issue in favour of the plaintiff, and the council now appeal to this court against his decision.
The parties to the first application agreed that the same preliminary issue should be determined in that case at the same time.
A preliminary issue in the case concerned whether Pape had standing to seek the relief he claimed.
The judges are considering preliminary issues in those cases.
