The rotten fruit issue ... Corruption busters busted for bias, concealment, and conflicts … Mistress of the office couch more damaged than the rape victim … Next round for Linda Reynolds … Reputation damaged by former attorney general … Miranda Devine smooches Trump ... Read on >>
From the cutting room floor...Handsy Heydon goes to Perth ... Celebrity tour ... Conferenceville ... Dicey's job application speech from 2002 ... Other High Court judges mocked as "vegetables" ... Mason CJ ridiculed ... Speech bowdlerised for public consumption ... Courage of conviction MIA ... From our National Affairs Correspondent ... Read more >>
Pinning the tail on the jellyfish ... Auditor General to probe the shifting expenditure on Federal Court legal services ... AFR ... More >>
Letter from London ... Weather report ... Starmer sinking ... Farage rising ... Fake law firm ... Fake cases ... NHS employee cleans up with woke case for hurt feelings ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt files from Blighty ... Read more >>
Holding onto Hope ... Gina Rinehart's Bleak House ... Seeking chunks of the huge iron ore pit, Hope Downs ... Tracing the tangled Wright, Hancock, Rinehart litigation ... Allegations of fraud against the family trust ...Manoeuvring ... Tax "advice" ... Shifting vesting date ... Money, the root of unhappiness ... Anthony-James Kanaan reports ... Read more >>
The High Court of Queensland ... Where to now for Bookshelves Brandis? ... Banana Benders in charge ... Eleven names scratched by CJ from Sunshine silks list ... Prosecutors dominate NSW Dizzo appointments ... Farewell to Equity Queen ... What life looked like nine years ago ... From Justinian's Archive, December 2, 2016 ... Read more >>
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Hellfire Club • Friday, November 14, 2014 Nifty Legal Aid scam sees WA solicitor thrown off the jam roll ... Sneaky website directed legal aid applicants straight to Perth law shop ... Also, Queensland solicitor survives a failure to declare income to the ATO and Centrelink ... Kate Lilly reports
Depression, Professional misconduct, Taxation Hellfire Club • Monday, April 15, 2013 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
Hellfire Club • Tuesday, October 30, 2012 Experienced NSW criminal barrister caught in property development catastrophe … Misleading evidence to Dizzo proceedings brought to retrieve money … Professional misconduct … More despair from the Bureau de Spank
Around The Firms • Tuesday, June 19, 2012 Consequences for gun-hating PI prince following misconduct finding … Not fit and proper for LawCover board ... Yet still OK for Law Society council ... Pinged for relatively insignificant touting
Hellfire Club • Thursday, May 31, 2012 Chin wag … Solicitor falls foul of just about every vice in the book … Rudeness, overcharging, over servicing, false allegations, trust account diddles … Stipes recommend strike-off for solicitor who misled magistrate and told security guard "to go back to where he came from" ... Peta Smith reports from ringside
Professional misconduct Hellfire Club • Wednesday, March 28, 2012 Round-up of latest findings from the Bureau de Spank in Western Australia and Victoria ... All the usual catastrophes ... Fibbing, failure to disclose, false evidence, overcharging, trust account fiddles ... Pierce Hartigan reports
Hellfire Club • Friday, December 23, 2011 Solicitor for Voyager victims loses his ticket ... Double billing and lack of candour means that David Forster is not a fit and proper type ... Nearly $1.5 million in receivership and LSB costs ... No joy from the fidelity fund
Court in the Act • Friday, August 26, 2011 Vic Appeals throws Michael Brereton a lifeline ... Celebrity lawyer did not owe fiduciary duties to clients who lost money in his retirement village scheme ... No beneficial interest in money paid to solicitor ... No misappropriation involved with funds that vanished ... Legal fairy dust
Hellfire Club • Friday, June 3, 2011 Barrister with innovative drink-driving practice struck from the jam roll after impressive list of priors ... Lapses going back to 2006 finally catch-up with forum shopper
Professional misconduct