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, 2018ICAC 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, 2018Striking 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, 2018When 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, 2018Sydney 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, 2018Scoop … 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, 2018Coroners 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, 2018Unticketed 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