Angel Flight is a kid with a pop gun at a real gun fight. Sadly, that’s not surprising given the disparity in resources.
Because the CASA emails were ‘discovered’ - disclosed to the court and Angel Flight - for the purpose of Angel Flight’s punch up with CASA in matter X (the challenge to the validity of the imposition of the ‘community service flight’ condition on flight crew licences), those emails can’t automatically be used for another purpose e.g. put in evidence in matter Y (the challenge to the validity of the demand for information). If I were an applicant in matter Y, I would have sought to obtain the emails by subpoena for the purposes of matter Y.
(And I do wish people would stop referring to the community service flight “regulations”. There are no community service flight “regulations”. All you need to do is “read” what the document in question says to work out that it’s not a “regulation”. In this gun fight, the distinction is fundamentally important.)
But surely everyone feels grateful that CASA is spending more taxpayers money to drive Angel Flight into the ground? It’s about safety, don’t you know.