Eve Black in more courtroom antics

Covid conspiracy theorist Eve Black has again put in a bizarre court appearance — this time without interruption from a squawking parrot.

Covid conspiracy theorist Eve Black has faced yet another bizarre online court hearing, refusing to put her video on so the magistrate could see her.

Black, 28, whose real name is Eugenia Limberiou, became notorious last year after a video she took of herself breaching the chief health officer’s directions at a coronavirus checkpoint in regional Victoria went viral during Melbourne’s second wave lockdown.

Police swooped on her in a dramatic arrest in Carlton on July 29 last year, when officers were forced to smash her car window after she allegedly failed to provide her details.

Like a roll call in school, when Magistrate Michael Gurvich asked if she was “on the line” after seeing someone who had only dialled in to the hearing identifying as “EL” on Thursday, Black responded: “Present”.

When the magistrate remarked “I can’t see you at the moment”, Black said: “That’s all right, you can hear me.”

Mr Gurvich persisted with the hearing and asked her how she intended to plead to the charges of failing to produce her driver’s licence for inspection, or state her name and address.

“Not guilty,” Black said.

After some toing and froing over the spelling out of a prosecution email address she should get in contact with, the case was adjourned to September.

Mr Gurvich advised her to get in touch with prosecution before the next date on that email address to book in a summary case conference “to try and resolve the matter”.

“Is there anything else?” she abruptly asked the magistrate.

“You are free to go,” he said.

Black did not appear with any legal representation.

It comes after a friend, who identified himself as “Zev Secured Party Creditor”, appeared at her last hearing in March and tried to have the charges thrown out of court.

During that hearing, “Zev” stated he wasn’t a lawyer before he was interrupted by a loud squawking.

“Sorry, that’s my parrot,” he said.

He went on to say he had 20 years experience in the paralegal area and that he was seeking a “plea in abatement” to have the charges dismissed, before saying Black had been incorrectly listed as a male on the paperwork.

Citing the Privacy Act, Zev also called for the case “to be kept out of the public” so as not to “tarnish her good name any further”.

The overseeing judicial officer quickly shut him down, saying the Privacy Act does not apply to court proceedings, and that a plea of abatement was not available.

Police allege Black “refused to state her name and address and was insistent on recording the interaction on her mobile phone” when they stopped her on Rathdowne St.

“She was argumentative and uncooperative and wound up the window and locked the door refusing to acknowledge or respond to police requests,” a police summary alleged.

She was arrested only after police shattered her side window.

On top of the charges, she was also fined $1652 for travelling without a valid reason under stage three restrictions.