But the Judge Did Say That … ‘Pirate Code’

In Jobson v Clarke [2021] QDC 320 at [16], Judge Porter KC observed:

[16]  Finally, parties should, as a matter of practice, vary directions where they are not able to be complied with. Directions set out the expectations of the Court for the prompt disposition of proceedings, even if those expectations are defined by the consent of the parties in most family provision applications. It is inconsistent with the obligations in Rule 5 UCPR, and inconsistent with the obligation of parties to comply with orders of the Court, for parties to treat directions “more as guidelines than actual rules”: Captain Barbosa to Ms Swan, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003). That might be acceptable for the Pirate Code, but not for directions of this Court.