Noteworthy decision

Uncategorized    Monday, May 17, 2021

Billing … Ebsworth refused to hand over file notes to client … Client’s bills paid by bank … Property of the file notes … For whose benefit were the file notes created? … No charge code in billing system for file notes … Janek Drevikovsky reports 

 

Accessory to the swordsman

Uncategorized    Monday, May 17, 2021

Prosecutor on the ropes … Court finds murder prosecution was unreasonable … Unstable witness the basis of “case theory” … Witness alleges mistreatment by DPP … Evidence withheld … Offender recovers legal fees … Janek Drevikovsky reports 

 

The Porter Principle

Uncategorized    Friday, May 7, 2021

UPDATE … I’ll show you mine but no-one should see yours … Porter struggling with too much baggage … Untoward allegations about Riverview branch of the bench … Court anonymises another lawyer in strife … Double billing at the Law Society … Theodora reports

 

Suppressed tendencies

Uncategorized    Friday, April 30, 2021

Depression and suppression … Bring on the psychiatrists … Special pleading for special people … Identities scrubbed from the record … Open justice takes the hindmost … Janek Drevikovsky reports 

 

News that won’t fit

Uncategorized    Friday, April 30, 2021

No comment on whether NSW lawyers are police sources … Schmo’s mate the Police Commissioner has solved the Porter case, once and for all … Attorney General adopts multiple positions on the Walama Court issue … Rule of Law Institute planning to expose schoolies to fresh ideas about the courts … Slump on coronial activities … Theodora lays on her hands 

 

Wet lettuce bulletin

Uncategorized    Monday, April 26, 2021

Child porn solicitor gets chopped for trust fiddling … Former lawyer spanked for signature irregularities … Permission granted to act against former client … Janek Drevikovsky reports from the Bureau se Spank

 

Lost in time

Uncategorized    Monday, April 26, 2021

Elderly barrister out of tune with contemporary mores … Left without a chair when the music stopped … Spanked for sexual harassment of a junior female … Confusion about “comforting gesture” … Flippant remarks … Arm around shoulder … Unfunny jokes … Alan Zheng reports

 

A passionate Scot

Uncategorized    Wednesday, April 21, 2021

Top End capers … NT judge says she was defamed by silk in an article in which she wasn’t named … Article said to be indefensible … Judge threatens to take it further … History of bad blood … Journalist complains about ripe language from barrister … Another first … Buffalo Bruce reports from Darwin  COMMENT: Where can we find this interesting sounding decision of the Law Society? COMMENT: URL: The absurdity and irony of a judge commencing proceedings for defamation over an article written by a silk arguing that an entire Court (and not an individual judge on that Court) is inexperienced and contributing to injustice…