Pride and Prejudice

Uncategorized    Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Full Feds fed-up to the back teeth … Eldon’s submissions scotched … Appeal from harassing conveyancer tossed out … Sexual harassment that was not meant to be sexual … Solicitor in his underwear … Loitering in female employee’s bedroom … Hugs … Damages should have been greater … An elephant in love … Janek Drevikovsky reports 

 

Delusions dossier

Uncategorized    Monday, July 27, 2020

Constitutional deconstruction … The anti-mask, no jabs brigade looks to the outer reaches of the law for support … Freedom-loving conspiracy theorists fighting tyranny and trolls … GoFundMe’s cash sprinkler … Bill Gates to blame … Alan Zheng reports from the frontline 

 

Litigations in Queanbeyan

Uncategorized    Monday, July 20, 2020

Kerr’s correspondence with the Palace on the Loans Affair prosecution … Shifting claims of Crown privilege … Resignation of attorney general Ellicott … The GG away at the opera when the executive council agreed to raise $4 billion in petrodollars … The Queen didn’t much like Alan Reid’s unbalanced opinions … Send me another book, please … Kerr’s views on Neville Wran … Stephen Murray delves into remote corners of the Palace Letters 

 

Missing the mark

Uncategorized    Saturday, July 18, 2020

Apple Isle confusion over pleadings in a negligence claim … The potting machine out of action after a power surge … Poles and wires … How much pleading is necessary? … Only the facts, not the legal arguments … The Judicature Act … The common law in play … The Map … Janek Drevikovsky reveals all  

 

Could your honour pardon me one moment?

Uncategorized    Friday, July 17, 2020

MH17 class action … Plane shot down over Ukraine … Non-resident cannot sue under Montreal Convention … Family should not have been barred from the proceedings … Failure to inform … Insouciance … Conduct of lawyers fell “well short” of their obligations … Show cause why the lawyers should not pay the appellants’ costs … Mea Culpa … Janek Drevikovsky reports  COMMENT: URL:

 

Crisis in clubland

Uncategorized    Wednesday, July 15, 2020

Yarraside furore … Essoign Club clinging on in stressful times … Bar Council not booking enough functions … Uncertain future … Rent ructions … Frosty relations … Facilitated discussions … Last bastion of the rear guard … Theodora reports 

 

Sore and sorry Salvatore

Uncategorized    Friday, July 10, 2020

Latest from Circus Side … Sal Vasta’s written judgment recast from the original oral version … Threat of imprisonment hits the cutting room floor … Family Court appeal judges regret having to admonish the Circus judge … Sigh … Another burdensome remitted hearing … Janek Drevikovsky reports  

 

Canberra taxi drivers are dangerous men

Uncategorized    Thursday, July 9, 2020

The ashes of Dyson Heydon’s standing scattered far and wide … We’re ashamed … Tally of the catastrophe … Retreat to the club … No more blind eyes … Fresh inquiries and investigations rattle some nerves … Character, law, and judging … Ginger Snatch, an associate of judges, reports