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Wednesday
Nov262014

Bathurst CJ - questions and answers

• DateWednesday, November 26, 2014

Interview with NSW chief justice Tom Bathurst ... A glass of water for the shock jocks ... CJ's thoughts about QCs and SCs, a tort for serious invasions of privacy, a Bill of Rights and electronic courts ... Addressing the costs of litigation ... Judicial diversity ... Confidence in the judiciary 

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Monday
Jun022014

Picnics at Hanging Rock

• DateMonday, June 2, 2014

Lawyers Full Employment Act ... Royal Commissions and ICAC costs research ... Governments' much needed economic boost for struggling legal caper ... Kate Lilly fossicks for the numbers ... Stud Book 

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Wednesday
Nov132013

Say sorry

• DateWednesday, November 13, 2013

No costs when offer of compromise has grammatical errors ... Apologise to Wal, insists Antagonistic ... Clients get money back from national law shop 

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Sunday
Aug252013

Race for the money 

• DateSunday, August 25, 2013

Lawyers fees slashed ... Bills unpaid ... Client and former solicitors in dispute over money ... Solicitors who were sacked from defamation case having trouble getting their hands of their costs ... Client wants the money paid to him ... Trouble in libel land ... Defamatorium 

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Saturday
Apr202013

Stamping out meanness 

• DateSaturday, April 20, 2013

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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Monday
Apr152013

Keddies' nemesis fending off fee claims 

• DateMonday, April 15, 2013

Costs of costs dispute ... Firths fights bitter battle against former client ... Court finds that law shop's offers to settle were not genuine compromises ... Client's extravagant claims ... Each side sent home without a costs order 

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Friday
Oct122012

Fee, fi, fo, fight 

• DateFriday, October 12, 2012

Sydney silk in fees stoush with Brisbane law shop ... Court of Appeal refuses to strike out solicitors' defence and cross-claim ... Allegation of overcharging ... Ballooning estimates 

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Tuesday
Mar082011

Drought breaks for Katzenjammer Kid 

• DateTuesday, March 8, 2011

Brunswick solicitor has costs victory in eight year losing battle over repairs to his Toyota Camry ... Luby's Mobile Mechanic charged $705.32 to fix the engine ... Lawyers charged $46,000 for trial and appeal ... If you stick with the litigation long enough there's bound to be a break through ... Barry Lane reports from Yarraside

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Friday
Jun252010

Avoiding the discovery train wreck

• DateFriday, June 25, 2010

London calling … Disclosing electronic documents … Costs have travelled north in the wake of the Woolf reforms … Less willingness to order discovery … New gardening broom in Birmingham tries to keep the lid on the cost of disclosure … Leverhulme reports

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