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 

 

Hearing aid goes deaf

Uncategorized    Friday, September 15, 2017

Experienced solicitor caught in hearing aid diddle … Professional misconduct … Falsifying workers compensation claim … Concealing prior claim history … Solicitor’s actions driven by professional embarrassment or self-interest … Reporter Luan Whitworth at NCAT 

 

The costly business of unitemised billing

Uncategorized    Friday, September 8, 2017

PI law shop’s repeated failure to produce itemised bills … The fine print is too fine … Over briefing senior counsel … Strange ruling from Legal Services Commissioner on junior counsel’s fees … Madeline White follows the action 

 

Viceworld

Uncategorized    Thursday, September 7, 2017

Law Society of NSW … Junior VP voted off the executive … Desperate fight from marginal Catholic and evangelical lawyers to preserve marriage inequality … Where to now with threats of an EGM and “legal action” against the law society? … Civil and political rights in contention