Gender quotas … Solicitors elect NSW Law Society Council with an 82% female majority … Retired judge wants more litigation to bring the ABC to heel … Questionable evidence to parliamentary committee on litigation funding … Premier has confidence in conflicted AG after no confidence motion … Time stretched allows for extra careful detailed review of evidence in a copyright case … Theodora reports
The Lady Vanishes
Uncategorized Monday, November 29, 2021Untitled … Former executive director of the bar dies … Babette Smith played a leading role in soothing heated temperaments … Huge drama over nude painting removed from the bar common room … Boarding school politics … Furious letters … Name calling … Unsettling events … TV documentary … Theodora reports COMMENT: My comment that the lady in the painting was not masturbating was not based on the fact that "no-one had seen her hand move" (as the article suggests). It was on 2 bases – first (and principally) that her hand was well short of her pubic area and secondly that it was on top of her panties so that, if it had reached her pubic area, it would have been frottage not masturbation.
David Bennett
Collateral damage
Uncategorized Saturday, November 27, 2021Practising ticket suspended … Manager appointed … Anonymised solicitor unsuccessful in stay application … Client told incorrect figure for accident payout … A difference of $130,000 … Allegedly false invoices for disbursement funding … Alan Zheng reports
Police prosecutor in Shakespearean succession drama
Uncategorized Friday, November 19, 2021NSW Supreme Court says prosecutor engaged in “vile” behaviour … Persecution of step-mother … False accusation of murder … Unreliable evidence … Discreditable conduct by a lawyer … Max Shanahan reports
Winning ways
Uncategorized Thursday, November 18, 2021Rockhampton solicitor goes down … Drunken offering of a “lazy quid” to the constables … Corruption … Adornment to the legal caper … Offer of cash not seen as a joke … A real charmer … Foul mouthed bikie lawyer sentenced to the clink … Alan Zheng reports
Naughty Nathan
Uncategorized Tuesday, November 16, 2021Rabid lawyers fired-up by public health orders … Freedom … Sovereignty … Court ruling claimed to invite anarchy … Warfare among litigation crowdfunders … Excitable foot soldiers … Jeremy Bentham on rights and public peace … Alan Zheng reports
Vital snippets
Uncategorized Friday, November 12, 2021No mug for Cash … Simon bucks High Court tradition … Defrocked barrister goes into the consulting business … Deselecting Black jurors … Theodora reports
Forward to the ’50s
Uncategorized Wednesday, November 10, 2021Update … New-Old guard sweeps back at Vic Bar’s election … Conservative candidates with the big how-to-vote brochures … More of the same … Elites swiping other elites … Fury at pandemic management legislation … Stasi in charge … Career crippling mojitos at Tory silk’s gaff … Shadow AG’s crashes his career … Phew