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
Doing the bidding of shock jocks and tabloid hacks
Uncategorized Thursday, September 21, 2017In NSW, the regime is fond of introducing useless laws designed to placate outbursts of indignation from the tabloids … The Disrespectful Behaviour Act is the latest of this genre … Try to be nice to judges
Germy allegations hosed down
Uncategorized Monday, September 18, 2017QCA 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, 2017Telling 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, 2017Here 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, 2017Experienced 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, 2017PI 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, 2017Law 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