Steve Mark's mail unanswered

Updated on Wednesday, May 29, 2013 by Justinian

It took a while, but the Bureau de Spank succeeds in getting solicitor with a disastrous track record struck from the roll ... Failure to turn up in court ... Failure to answer the Bureau's letters ... Out of contact for five months overseas ... Trust account and MCLE disarray 

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Enriching the client experience

How not to shaft masters of the universe ... Massaging the message - the art of the media release ... "We've got wood" ... What's wrong with the name "King & Wood Mallesons"? 

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Smacking of pure arrogance

QC drafts letter for Allens, which makes "thinly veiled" threat to Vic CJ ... "Grossly improper" attempt to influence the court ... Full throttle grovel 

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Nineteenth century man

Dyson Heydon's top 10 books of the nineteenth century … From Memoires d'Outre Tombe to The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian … Dyse's faves from a golden time 

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High class racketeering

The personal injury racket ... The no win, no fee racket ... The after-the-event insurance racket ... The unauthorised practice of law racket ... Tulkinghorn examines the meaty bone and its associated lawyer rackets  

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Fish shop phone furore

Barrister and solicitor were parties to secret recording of mobile phone conversation while a trial was in progress ... Impropriety ... Application to tender recording rejected ... Breach of Surveillance Devices Act and Evidence Act ... Alix Piatek reports 

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Queue See

Qld gazettes arrangements for converting from senior counsel to queens' counsel ... Marketing ploy in a desperately needy climate ... Melbourne SC still pressing for the queens' counsel option while fighting off attacks on the "imponderables" of selection ... Warning: original notion of the QC had little to do with higher fees  

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Legal Aid: pips are squealing

Boning knife taken to NSW Legal Aid ... No money for defended Local Court trials, unless defendants face the "real possibility" of a gaol sentence ... Letter from director of the criminal law division ... Challenges in "managing the reaction from the bench" ... Massive resources for the coppers produces squeeze further down the food chain 

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US soldiers are special: they can shoot, but they can't be shot

US government has its very own radical Islam website ... Judge overrules some of the FBI's denial of rights to Boston bombing suspect ... Canadian to appeal Guantánamo conviction ... Guilty plea to invalid charges ... Pentagon citing Civil War precedents in Bradley Manning stitch-up ... From Roger Fitch, Our Man in Washington 

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Hiding under rocks

Qld AG insists there's no rape of teenagers in Pineapple Land jails ... Silk's daily rate for the crown ... Canberra firm fails in early round to squelch picketing client's Mum ... Justice Bromberg's vital statistics 

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Where are they now?

The moving and shaking of a Law Society high-flyer … The Armidale connection … The University of New England and living in the shadow of Dickie Torbay  

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Clutz blinks

Big law shop drops its insistence on having Allan Myers for the Chris Dale case ... Appeal ditched ... No more mucking around 

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Gentlemen, please

Touchy war of words between the upper and lower stratas of the federal judiciary ... Raphael v Perram; Perram v Raphael ... It’s a matter of tone ... Alix Piatek reports

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The $1 billion judgment

Compo lawyers will be painting the town red ... NSW Court of Appeal wipes out 25 percent of the government's proposed savings from the 2012 workers comp reforms ... Lump sums are back - at the old rate  

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The PM who was never quite real

The nation turns against a sponger who'd milked the system ... Leverhulme farewells Thatcher, a revolutionary, not a Tory ... Brought down by a "howling intellectual error" ... London Calling 

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Government's bar bill

Crown keeping a tight rein on barrister expenses in NSW ... Funding for the bar virtually unchanged for two-and-a-half years ... Top fee last year for Crown Solicitor's civil work was $1,054,501.25 ... Full list of fees paid ... Another scoop from Justinian 

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VicAppeals scuttles Voyager lawyer

Fallout from the Melbourne-Voyager collision ... Solicitor for victims loses his ticket ... Bad behaviour and lack of candour ... Drawn out case, as elderly clients suffer ... Alix Piatek reports 

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Stamping out meanness

Bench and bar combine to squelch Jackson civil litigation cost reforms ... Latest scheme of improvement to costly litigation quietly throttled … Dame Elizabeth Gloster says judges should not be mean about barristers' fees … Alix Piatek reports 

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Life at The Wall

Appeal judge airs his knowledge of gay beats ... A family of "Best Lawyers" ... Drink-drive judge mentoring other judges ... New book takes us behind the scenes at the Judicial Commission ... Truly breathtaking arrogance 

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Self-help solicitor struck off

Rolled-up bundle of complaints against solicitor from the NSW northern rivers ... Harassment of former female client with 30 plus phone calls and text messages ... Forging JP's signature ... Breaching the sanctity of the solicitor-client relationship ... Other sins 

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