Spotlight on McClintock ... Former defamation silk takes the podium ... Speech and fielding questions in clubland ... Jabs at enemies ... Why fewer punters are suing ... Cross-examining journalists ... Fun cases ... When not to sue ... From Ginger Snatch at lunch ... Read more >>
A Christmas card from 500 Words ... It's Christmas – time to consider Trump, Lehrmann, and Dutton's connections to the word "rape" … It's not Christmas without Lady Mary Fairfax … US Ambassador to Australia – looking for someone from the "diplomatic clown car" ... Read on ...
Bird on the wing ... Child abuse and the Catholic Church ... High Court veers clear of a "skeletal fracture" of the common law ... "Control" and independent contractors ... Vicarious liability ... Ignoring common law developments elsewhere ... Australia's exceptionalism ... Ass and the law ... Procrustes revisits Bishop Bird and DP ... Read more >>
ALRC report on justice responses to sexual violence has been completed ... To be tabled when parliament gets back on its legs ... More >>
Shmagatha Shmistie 2.0 ... Another round with Vardy and Rooney ... Remote evidence from a witness - on the bus ... Brazilian magistrate looses his shirt ... CV qualifications propped up by pork pies ... Fast justice by Scissors & Paste ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt in London with the latest regrettable court-related conduct ... Read more >>
The great interceptor ... Rugby League ... Dennis Tutty and the try he shouldn't have scored ... Case that changed the face of professional sport ... Growth of the player associations, courtesy of the Barwick High Court ... Free kick ... Restraint of trade ... Braham Dabscheck comments ... Read more ...
Litigation's artful delays ... From Justinian's archive ... April 22, 2014 ... Lawyers and the complexity of litigation ... Delay as a defence tactic ... Access to justice includes preventing access to justice ... Reprising the Flower & Hart saga with starring role by Ian Callinan QC ... Abuse of process ... Queensland CJ declined to intervene ... Tulkinghorn on the case ... Read more ...
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Goings On ... • Monday, July 29, 2013 Judging Gov. Arthur Phillip ... Spiggsy comes out for a book launch ... Law Society farewells the Legal Servo Commish ... Remembering a dotty crown psychiatrist ... The Delilah Syndrome
City Desk • Monday, July 8, 2013 Steve Mark, chief of the Bureau de Spank, says goodbye ... He believes the OLSC's handling of Keddies was "a major success" ... Cultural Regulation v Behavioural Regulation
OLSC, Steve Mark Goings On ... • Tuesday, June 12, 2012
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UPDATE ... Keddies has been the biggest public overcharging scandal to confront the legal profession in NSW ... Yet the Legal Services Commissioner, Steve Mark, has ended-up in a woeful place ... In order to get his partners off the hook Russell Keddie made admissions ... Admissions which don't stack-up
Russell Keddie, Scott Roulstone, Steve Mark, Tony Barakat Hellfire Club • Monday, April 16, 2012 Legal Services Commissioner's appointment can be "inferred" ... Fumbling around to find documents to prove that Steve Mark was validly appointed at the time he lodged complaints about personal injury advertising by Robert Bryden & Lee Hagipantelis ... Flurry at ADT hearing
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 Hellfire Club • Monday, August 22, 2011 Solicitor's name on NSW disciplinary register as a result of an unexplained error ... Damage to reputation ... Legal Services Commissioner dismisses complaint against himself ... ADT discovers it has no jurisdiction to restore suspended practising certificates that have run out of time ... Latest trauma from the Bureau de Spank
Deja Vu • Wednesday, August 2, 2006 The Mensch, the solicitor, the $500 a pop hooker and the documents … Tasmanian judge lost in tropics … Cunneen verdict from Bureau de Spank ... The file has vanished - handy new defence in misconduct cases ... From Justinian's massive archive of stories, August 2006