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The wrong courtroom incident wasn’t the only embarrassing or “Minties moment” shared. Judge Menzies also recalled a lawyer he didn’t name making an earnest bail application in hopeless circumstances, with the key argument being the intense interest the defendant’s mother was taking in proceedings. “What counsel was unable to appreciate, and what I could see quite obviously, the defendant s mother … the only person remaining, had long since curled up in a corner, sound asleep and snoring,” Judge Menzies said. “Bail was refused.”
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Judge Menzies came to the bench in 2014 and, before that, was a partner at Harkness Henry.
He’s an artist who doesn t take himself too seriously, despite having played with groups such as Katchafire, and fronted at recent festivals including One Love and Festival One. “It s meant to be fun,” he told the crowd, encouraging everyone to boogie in the aisles when they felt the need. Several took him up on the offer – hardly surprising, given the energy, fat funk beats and bass riffs the band pumped out during the show. But the most memorable moment of the night was entirely unintentional. In the third song from the end, the room was hanging off a solo that keyboard player Stallone D’Souza was building up, when the stand collapsed and his keyboard fell to the floor.