Eating the courts’ lunch

Uncategorized    Wednesday, October 4, 2017

Staff at federal courts work-to-rule … Leaflets to litigants … Unhappiness mounts … No pay rise for four years … Registry merger … Sackings … Difficulty crossing a picket line  

 

Workplace grief

Uncategorized    Friday, September 29, 2017

Sex discrimination and harassment complaints against HWL Ebsworth … NCAT hearing … The case shows signs of devouring significant time and costs 

 

Hilton bombed

Uncategorized    Monday, September 25, 2017

The intercept that undid Howard Hilton … Conspiracy to corrupt the corrupt Rex Jackson … After 30 years of unfitness, NSW CA says Hilton still unfit … Amorality would undermine public confidence … Sophie Taylor with the latest  

 

The perils of Pauline

Uncategorized    Friday, September 22, 2017

Conservative rump of members seeking to stamp out Law Society support for the YES vote … SSM … Never mind the facts, just feel the stale assertions … Remembering Molly Bloom 

 


Germy allegations hosed down

Uncategorized    Monday, September 18, 2017

QCA sends solicitor to re-education camp after overturning earlier strike-off order … Strange claim of employer’s vicarious liability for defamation … Sophie Taylor reports 

 

ACT solicitor stubbed out

Uncategorized    Monday, September 18, 2017

Telling pork pies to clients, the court, the Law Society and others … It all came to a head when the solicitor was convicted of diddling a client’s mother and the Legal Aid Commission … Sophie Taylor on the case 

 

Yards and yards of the finest silks

Uncategorized    Friday, September 15, 2017

Here we go again … The NSW bar’s 2017 list of senior counsel applicants … A list groaning with prospects … Women amount to almost 20 percent of the contenders