Man of property bids adieu to the jam roll

Uncategorized    Thursday, October 4, 2018

Failure to pay tax, and employees super … Borrowing heavily from his mother … Lacking evidence to support bi-polar claim … Extravagant lifestyle … Generous payments for children and former wife … Jennifer Cooke reports

 

A tribute to Homer Simpson

Uncategorized    Thursday, September 27, 2018

Homer mysteriously appears in consent orders … A long way from Springfield … Country solicitor turns on client with complaint to judge, asking for a reconsideration of the orders granted … Client’s interest … Confidentiality … Nick Bonyhady reports 

 

Depression dispatches

Uncategorized    Tuesday, September 25, 2018

Solicitors losing their grip … Mental health and legal practice … No adequate explanations offered to the stipes … Judges under siege … Where mental health prevents a lawyer dealing with professional complaints … Ticket suspended … Jennifer Cooke reports from the Bureau de Spank 

 

Judicial speedster too heavy on the accelerator

Uncategorized    Monday, September 24, 2018

UPDATE … Full Federal Court bounces another decision from Sandy Street in the Federal Circuit Court … Conduct of the hearing “fell short of what was desirable” … Unfairness generated by the court … Inadequate reasons in another review heard by Street required the full court to rehear the application … Nick Bonyhady reports  

 

News from the font of misfeasance

Uncategorized    Tuesday, September 11, 2018

ICAC chalks-up another win … Corrupt businessman’s notice to produce sent packing … Seeking documents related to findings about property deals at The Rocks … Journalist’s campaign against ICAC founders … Bizarre straddle on UN meddling in our precious sovereignty … Nick Bonyhady reports 

 

Lend me your ears

Uncategorized    Monday, September 10, 2018

Striking off … Workers comp solicitor bites the dust over bogus claim for legal funding … Claim for hearing-aids that were never part of the compensation consent orders made by the WCC … Defenestrated solicitor still plying the trade in court … Secretary knows nothing … Jennifer Cooke reports from NCAT 

 

Hedge funds

Uncategorized    Sunday, September 9, 2018

When is money trust money? … When it belongs to someone else … It’s easy to get muddled … Brothers-in-law … Jennifer Cooke reports from NCAT on wrangling the payment of disbursements 

 

Do nothing!

Uncategorized    Saturday, September 8, 2018

Sydney Law School’s retiring dean Joellen Riley sits down and talks to Nick Bonyhady … Academic pay and conditions … In the industrial relations trenches … Faculty shortcomings … Alarming exams … A sense of the ridiculous