Balkan intrigues ... Old coppers stagger into the Croatian Six inquiry ... 15-year jail terms in 1980 for alleged terrorism ... Miscarriage of justice under review ... Verballing ... Loading-up ... Old fashioned detective "work" ... Evidence so far ... Hamish McDonald reports ... Read more >>
Splitting heirs ... How to get rid of the Royals – a Republican tours Orstraya … Underneath their robes – sexual harassment on the bench … Credit card fees – so tricky that only economists know what to do … Muted response to Drumgold vindication … Vale Percy Allan ... Read on ...
Blue sky litigation ... Another costly Lehrmann decision ... One more spin on the never-never ... Arguable appeal discovered in the bowels of the Gazette of Law & Journalism ... Odious litigants ... Could Lee J have got it wrong on the meaning of rape? ... Calpurnia reports from the Defamatorium ... Read more >>
Online incitements ... Riots in English cities fed by online misinformation about refugees ... Policing and prosecution policies ... Fast and furious processing of offenders ... Online Safety Act grapples with new challenges ... Increased policing of speech on tech platforms ... Hugh Vuillier reports from London ... Read more >>
Vale Percy Allan AM ... Obit for friend and fellow-traveller ... Prolific writer on economics and politics ... Public finance guru ... Technocrat with humanity and broad interests ... Theatre ... Animals ... Art ... Read more ...
A triumph for Victorian morality ... Ashton v Pratt ... In the sack with Dick Pratt ... Meretricious sexual services renders contract void on public policy grounds ... Justice Paul Brereton applies curious moral standard ... A whiff of hypocrisy ... Doubtful finding ... Artemus Jones reporting ... From Justinian's Archive, January 24, 2012 ... Who knew the NACC commissioner had strong views on the sanctity of marriage ... Read more ...
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City Desk • Wednesday, June 11, 2014 The Keddies' case never ceases to amaze and confound ... Partners in NSW's biggest overcharging scandal back plying their trade ... Barakat and Roulston succeed in applications to have the Law Society issue them with tickets
Hellfire Club • Tuesday, June 25, 2013 Solicitor off the track over "voidness" scam … The Keddies wash-up - no professional misconduct for $215,000 over-charge … Depression and despair win the day for solicitor in dysfunctional partnership ... Bureaux de Spank spanked
Around The Firms • Wednesday, June 12, 2013 Over-billing in PI cases rears its unattractive head, again, as wounded Keddies partner takes on his nemesis, Stephen Firth ... Battle of the big billers ... Mounting claims against hero of the overcharged ... Stinger stung
Keddies, Overcharging, Stephen Firth City Desk • Wednesday, August 22, 2012 Tony Barakat caught in last minute trust manoeuvre ... Attempt to diddle creditors thwarted as funds frozen ... Stacks win $300,000 costs order from Keddies for hopeless professional negligence action ... Court of Appeal dumbfounded by Scott Roulstone's evidence
Keddies, Professional negligence, Stacks, Tony Barakat City Desk • Thursday, August 16, 2012 Exclusive … Keddies Kapers ... Preliminary report by Tony Barakat's bankruptcy trustee ... Millions squirreled in trusts and super out of reach of creditors ... Properties in wife's name ... Hurried transfers to be unravelled … Scott Roulstone's statement of affairs … Unfit and improper
Bankruptcy, Keddies, Scott Roulstone, Tony Barakat Tulkinghorn • Wednesday, August 15, 2012 In another world it might be fraud to charge for something you know is not owing ... For lawyers overcharging morphs into acceptable professional conduct ... For non-lawyers "overcharging" results in jail time ... Tulkinghorn explains
Goings On ... • Friday, July 13, 2012 Keddie's forgotten London property … Former client advises Royal Family to be careful of Keddie connection … Partners' property assets in deep freeze … Chief Judge Reg Blanch accused of running a "monkey room" in Hong Kong
Around The Firms • Wednesday, April 18, 2012 Substantial settlement for Keddies' overcharging … Millionaires want to put damages payouts on lay-by … Template response from AG's office ... Complaints about professional misconduct sent to Bermuda Triangle
Greg Smith, Keddies Goings On ... • Tuesday, March 20, 2012 Former DPP disputes reduced termination payout ... Summer Palace for the Tub ... Starchy etiquette rules from the Family Court ... Women's champ joins board of LegalSuper ... Keddies connected to exciting new costs recovery business ... Supreme Court foodhall closes, forever ... Receiver sends defrocked Voyager solicitor a big fat bill
Around The Firms • Thursday, March 1, 2012
Updated on Saturday, March 10, 2012 by
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Keddies asks Court of Appeal to throw Justice Adams off their contempt case ... Complaints of "derision and scepticism" ... Basten JA says "unseemly exchanges" between bench and bar not uncommon ... Evidence seeking to contradict a court transcript rejected ... Conspiracy denied ... Brigit Morris reports
Contempt of court, Keddies Around The Firms • Monday, February 27, 2012 Keddies, again … Self-regulation protects the independence of the legal profession and allows the most flagrant breaches of ethical standards to be regarded as acceptable … Tracing the Tariq overcharging case and how all misconduct complaints found their way to the dust bin … Charging another three-quarters of the amount on top of what is acceptable is not gross overcharging ... Victim presses for inquiry into OLSC
Keddies, Mohammed Tariq, Overcharging, Philip Scroope, Steve Mark Around The Firms • Friday, February 3, 2012
Updated on Friday, February 10, 2012 by
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Judge decides no reasonable person could think he was prejudiced against former Keddies' partners ... Stay also refused ... Contempt hearing against Keddies boys now set for February 16 ... Brigit Morris reporting from the NSW Supremes
Apprehended bias, Contempt of court, Keddies Bar Talk • Wednesday, February 1, 2012 Two Sydney barristers required to reveal their fees in overcharging case against Keddies … Allegations of multiple billing for the same work … Excessive charges and over-servicing
David Campbell, Keddies, Overcharging, Tim Meakes Goings On ... • Monday, January 30, 2012 Shake-out of former Keddies' partners at Slater & Gordon … ACT bar breaches suppression order
ACT bar, Keddies, Scott Roulstone, Tony Barakat Goings On ... • Friday, January 27, 2012 Tom Hughes to be profiled in detail and at length in new book by Canberra historian ... Keddies still ducking and weaving - application for judge to step aside ... Barristers ordered to reveal their billing in Hong Kong PI cases ... Smallbone boned by bar 'n' grill ... Ashton v Pratt - Madison flirts with an appeal
Around The Firms • Monday, December 12, 2011 New law year blasts off with contempt trial of three Keddies' partners … Cheque signed by Roulstone prime facie a breach of court order
Around The Firms • Wednesday, December 7, 2011 Further delays in "bring them to heel" proceedings against Keddies ... Defendants want formal charges for contempt of court case ... Breach of ordinary tenets of professional courtesy ... Possible cross-examination set for Monday
Around The Firms • Tuesday, December 6, 2011 Contempt of court … Intrusion into overcharging proceedings … Prime facie breach of undertakings and injunctions … Raising fingers of scorn at Supreme Court ... Keddies Three expected to be cross-examined by Stitt QC
Around The Firms • Wednesday, November 23, 2011 Mystery person offering settlements for Stephen Firth's clients to withdraw their overcharging cases against Keddies ... Injunction sought ... Former Keddies' partners give undertakings pending further hearing
Keddies, Overcharging, Slater & Gordon Hellfire Club • Friday, November 18, 2011 Overcharging - how gross ... Keddie hearing next April ... Judge Jim Curtis carefully exposes overbilling regime at Keddies ... The leveraging of time and money
Keddies, Russell Keddie, Scott Roulstone, Tony Barakat