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London Calling ... Vitamin D deficiency ... Anti-vax solicitor birched for "friendly warning" to schools ... Budget measures hit private school fee payers and their personal jets ... Robing room "humour" ... Equality and sensitivity training missing in action ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt reports from Blighty ... Read more >> 

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Following the Sydney Morning Herald's exposure ... Mark O'Brien, Alan Jones' solicitor, December 12, 2023  ... Read more flatulence ... 


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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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Thursday
Jan122012

Happy birthday Gitmo

Milestones and millstones ... Guantánamo's tenth birthday, as Bill of Rights turns 220 ... National Defence Authorisation Act allows for exciting possibilities - including military detention of US civilians ... The new Reichstag Fire Decree ... Latest from US Supremes ... Habeas - British courts step-in where DC Circuit fears to tread

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Friday
Dec232011

Slater & Gordon bastes itself in Turner Freeman victory

Slater & Gordon accused of trying to snitch commercial benefit from Turner Freeman's High Court victory in asbestos case ... Angry rebuke ... All a terrible misunderstanding 

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Friday
Dec232011

Voyager victims fleeced by pirate

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 

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Thursday
Dec222011

The Republican dream

Congressional fat cats ... Corporate crime and financial defalcation ... Constitutional violations ... Gridlock on judicial and ambassadorial nominations ... Roger Fitch surveys the Washington landscape 

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Wednesday
Dec212011

Horseplay won't bugger-up the football dollars

Jerry Sandusky, the Penn State football coach up on child sex charges, has a very helpful lawyer with a sparkling media strategy ... Trial will be a needless formality ... Stand-by for extensively legalled media portraits of the Iron Ore Queen ... Pillsbury Flom files 

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Friday
Dec162011

He kept off the front page

While no Lionel Murphy, Robert McClelland will be remembered as a decent, reforming attorney general ... His stature will grow with the years ... Marcus Priest, who was McClelland's senior policy advisor, dictated this piece to Polly Peck in Canberra 

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Tuesday
Dec132011

Litigation prophylaxis

William Collins on Victoria's vexatious litigants ... Goldie Collins and Constance Bienvenu look like being outshone by Hoddle Street killer Julian Knight, a resident of Port Phillip Prison ... Persistent resort to civil justice ... Tireless struggle against the state 

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Monday
Dec122011

Keddies must be kidding

New law year blasts off with contempt trial of three Keddies' partners … Cheque signed by Roulstone prime facie a breach of court order

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Wednesday
Dec072011

The mad dash to mediocrity

The new conduct rules for solicitors appear to be more notional than national ... Large Law Firm Group sets the tone ... It's all about what we can get away with ... The "right thing to do" went missing in action  ... Neil Watt, who sat on the LCA's ethics committee, experienced a dashing of expectations 

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Wednesday
Dec072011

"Grave disapproval" of Keddies

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

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Wednesday
Dec072011

Those pesky typos

Judges being unkind to each other ... History of poor grammar and typos in judgments ... Forgiveness for some ... Crucifixion for others ... Defamatorium

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Tuesday
Dec062011

Order to Keddies: show cause 

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 

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Monday
Dec052011

Let them eat handbags

Cakes mistaken for handbags … Louis Vuitton attacks cake shop … Crisis in world of sugary designs … Intellectual property under siege … Customer confusion 

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Friday
Dec022011

Braveheart's last stand

Scottish Supremo tries to quell northern rebellion ... English accused of eroding Scottish law ... "You can't take our freedom" ... Conflicts for horseracing barristers ... Leverhulme with London Calling 

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Wednesday
Nov302011

Reptiles and shysters

Littlemore peddles loosely-stitched thesis to Fink … Human Rights Commission beds down with Rio Tinto … Sound and fury from a Murdoch editor, signifying nothing … Styles v Clutz - parties issue peachy settlement sentiments … State media invaded by Poland 

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Monday
Nov282011

Judges fooling themselves

Judges and their reasoning ... Politics and precedent ... How judges use reasons as window dressing ... Tulkinghorn explores those extralegal criteria 

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Friday
Nov252011

Ambition swirls around AG's chair

Stepping up, stepping down ... Who's who in a prospective new year Canberra reshuffle ... Poor Harry Jenkins falling on his parliamentary cutlery is just the beginning ... Polly Peck suggests there is more knife work to come 

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Friday
Nov252011

Stressful times at Brisvegas bar 'n' grill

Silk appointments gridlocked ... Old favourites rejected, again ... Grim economic conditions for juniors ... Helpful advice on how barristers can ingratiate themselves ... Constable Plod takes an insensitive attitute to late BAS and tax returns ... Sir Terence O'Rort explores the misery  

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Wednesday
Nov232011

Scrambling to derail overcharging cases

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 

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Wednesday
Nov232011

Upside to resting barristers' cheques 

Solicitors are unlikely to be entirely jinxed if caught "resting" payments to barristers ... Famous Victorian cheque rester Gary Singer has gone from strength to strength in the art world, along with the rise of the withdrawal fee ... Barry Lane explores some intricate artistic-legal connections 

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