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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 >> 

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Walter Sofronoff v ACT Integrity Commission kicks off on Monday @ 10.15 am before Justice Abraham ... Judicial review of corruption finding ... More >> 

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London Calling ... Sizzling in the Old Dart ... Story of the complaining law graduate ... Tattle Life brought to book ... Beckham family feud over royal gong ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt's postcard ... Read more >> 

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Zeitgeist litigation ... Matt Collins KC on live-streaming of high-profile trials ... Social media nightmare ... Abuse of barristers ... Chilling emails ... Trials as a form of public entertainment ... Courts sleepwalking into a dangerous zone ... Framework needed to balance competing interests ... Paper delivered to Australian Lawyers Alliance Conference ... Read more >> 


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Being chased by a dog called Rhetoric ... Justice Virginia Bell on rhetorical devices and barristering ... It seems to be a male thing ... Distractions from the truth ... Tulkinghorn asks, where would the bar be without bad rhetoric? ... September 14, 2012 ... Read more >> 


 

 

Entries in Around the Firms (51)

Tuesday
Jul082025

Dog days in the defamation court

Hourly rates for celebrity reputation repair shop ... Uplift and away ... What it costs to win ... Stand off in "shameful" case ... Commercially sensitive exhibit revealed ... Report from judges' associate Ginger Snatch 

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Friday
Aug022024

Hopelessness

Lawyer sued over waste of time and money for unsuccessful defence ... Obligation to warn ... Failure to read documents - unwise, but not negligent ... Client disabused of false expectations ... Lawyer in the clear ... Anthony Kanaan reports 

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Tuesday
Jun252024

Costs calamity

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 

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Friday
Mar222024

Solicitor comes a cropper in costs battle

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 

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Tuesday
Mar052024

It was a dark and stormy night in the Shire

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  

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Monday
Apr172023

Into the sunset

Dramatic bust up of Adelaide law partnership ... Booming business in Hong Kong ... Lure of Mishcon de Reya ... Hunt through the emails ... Full Feds on the case ... Fiduciary duties ... Misleading and deceptive conduct ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Thursday
Feb232023

Land, lots of land under starry skies above

HWL Ebsworth found to be negligent in arrangements for massive land deal in western Sydney ... Quantum of damages yet to be determined ... Loss of opportunity to develop the land ... Failure to amend joint venture agreement in accordance with plaintiffs' instructions ... Don't fence me in 

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Thursday
Jul212022

Corrs blimey

Bollicking for large law shop over "independent" witness report ... Drafting assisted by lawyers ... Breach of expert witness code of conduct ... Law firm knew in advance what the findings would be ... Misleading the court ... Max Shanahan files 

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Wednesday
May252022

The money grab for new grads

Top tier law shops ... Soaring pay packets for law graduates ... Salaries hit $100k for fresh recruits ... Instagram survey ... Pay secrecy and inequality ... Social media collects the numbers ... Henry Chen has the data 

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