Top Secret Personality

AROUND THE FIRMS    Monday, May 4, 2026

What is confidential information? … Knowledge of litigant’s litigation strategy and personal foibles … Observations at social functions … Continued existence of the legal profession on the line … Problem solved by NSW CA … Mae Milne files

 

Costs calamity

AROUND THE FIRMS    Tuesday, June 25, 2024

Family provisions … NSW CA … Client underwater … Awarded an extra $220,000 from mother’s estate with costs of over $403,000 … Law firm’s unsuccessful challenge to costs assessment, panel review and District Court decision … Everyone goes home in tears … Anthony Kanaan reports

 

Solicitor comes a cropper in costs battle

AROUND THE FIRMS    Friday, March 22, 2024

Rising bills in solicitor’s uphappy wrestle with large law shop … The Chorley exception and life post-Chorley … Application “doomed to failure” … Heresy … Anthony-James Kanaan reports

 

It was a dark and stormy night in the Shire

AROUND THE FIRMS    Tuesday, March 5, 2024

Throttling … Cronulla love nest spirals out of control … Qantas hostie overturns District Court findings on red neck injuries inflicted by a boozed solicitor … Show cause … NSW Court of Appeal … Ginger Snatch reports