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 

 

Silky aspirations

Uncategorized    Thursday, September 6, 2018

Scoop … Another year and the NSW bar throws up a large quantity of contestants for a new round of the Silk Games … Full list invites inspection … Favourite names reappear 

 

The bodies are piling-up in NSW

Uncategorized    Wednesday, September 5, 2018

Coroners falling behind … Long queue for inquests … Coroners under-resourced … New legislation secretly prepared even before the report of the statutory review is publicly available … Full-blooded reforms thwarted … Updated information to hand 

 

Taxing matters

Uncategorized    Sunday, September 2, 2018

Unticketed criminal barrister gets low-end fine for breaching undertakings about tax payments … Misleading the Bar Council amounts to professional misdonduct … A steep fine would put family home in  jeopardy … Nick Bonyhady reports from NCAT