Bruising encounters with the ticket inspectors

Hellfire Club    Monday, July 20, 2026

Deticketed solicitor refused readmission … Complains about Supreme Court reasons and wants judgment amended … Lack of insight … Failure to rehabilitate … And – Qld copper turned lawyer comes a cropper … Delay, concealment, leading client up the garden path … Mae Milne reports from the Bureau de Spank

 

Disciplinary Mayhem

Hellfire Club    Friday, May 29, 2026

Solicitors in strife from one end of the country to the other … Unpaid counsel fees … Failure to be humble … Defects of character … A doomed special leave application … Mortgage in breach of court orders … Flawed fling for immunity … Desperation all around … Mae Milne reports from the Hellfire Club

 

Regulator Regrets

Hellfire Club    Monday, April 13, 2026

Payday for Lord Eldon … Acting for six years without a penny … QCAT orders indemnity costs against Legal Services Commissioner in flawed campaign against Brisbane solicitor … Bureau de Spank runs amok … Body corporate drama … Mae Milne reports

 

Frost bitten

Hellfire Club    Tuesday, February 24, 2026

WA lawyer bites the dust after coming clean on bogus emails … Pretending to help a former employee with alternate employment … Change of law regarding weight to be given by the Supreme Court to findings of the Tribunal … Mae Milne reports

 

Time’s up for Naughty Nathan

Hellfire Club    Wednesday, August 6, 2025

Recommendation that horrible NSW solicitor be derolled … Misuse of online funding campaigns … Spraying ripe and abusive language … Trolling Robert Beech-Jones … So unfit and improper as to be beyond reeducation … Anthony Kanaan reports

 

Potty mouth solicitor dispatched

Hellfire Club    Friday, July 25, 2025

NSW Court of Appeal takes dim view of solicitor who laced his correspondence with disrespectful insults … Insufficiently professional … Arrived from Greece with only his underpants … No contrition … Anthony Kanaan reports

 

Round-up from the Bureau de Spank

Hellfire Club    Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Solicitor acts without instructions from the donor of an power of attorney … Dodgy mortgage – Melbourne law shop nailed for negligent advice over contest about freezing orders … No immunity – Derailed Melbourne brief … More Sandbach – Anthony Kanaan reports

 

Strikings off

Hellfire Club    Friday, May 10, 2024

Fit and proper … Latest rulings from WA and NSW … Solicitors attraction to other people’s money … Abject departure from the gold standard … Anthony Kanaan looks at how unfit and improper you have to be in order to get de-rolled