Cross-examination interruptus

Uncategorized    Friday, May 6, 2016

Justice Michael Adams birched by NSW Court of Appeal for excessive interference during a trial … Trial was procedurally unfair … Start again … No finding of apprehended bias … Seb Tonkin reports  

 

Bob the Builder goes to court

Uncategorized    Thursday, May 5, 2016

Senator Bob Day asks Peter King to ask the High Court to overturn senate election reforms … Four pronged attack on Electoral Act amendment … Hannah Ryan courtside 

 

Chest-beating from Macquarie Street’s new lawn-order man

Uncategorized    Friday, April 29, 2016

Draconian legislation in NSW to combat “serious” crime … British equivalent extends its reach to trivial offences … NSW’s law and justice policies being run by the police … Liberal MP, Henskens SC, defends police state measures and criticises the bar for speaking out … Ill-informed political attack 

 

British exports

Uncategorized    Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Global divorce funder heading Down Under … while British commercial law shops are hauling offshore loot back to London 

 

Trials and tribulations

Uncategorized    Monday, April 25, 2016

Waterstreet dips in and out … NSW’s land titles registry on the block … Law & Justice Foundation being starved to death … Another trial for David Eastman  

 

 

Sleep overs

Uncategorized    Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Scerri stuff … Yarraside Supremo rebukes lawyers in over-egged intestacy case … Costs outrun the issues … Barrister contradicts himself … Lawyers sent to the Bureau de Spank … Seb Tonkin courtside  

 

Bar shtum on leaks

Uncategorized    Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Geoffrey Watson SC hung out to dry … Inside information about NSW bar’s disciplinary process leaked to the press … Counsel assisting chewed-up in ongoing News Corp war against ICAC 

 

Crowning moments

Uncategorized    Monday, April 18, 2016

Crown Law in Bananaland cannot act in industrial dispute against two of its employees … Acting as a self-represented litigant against its own staff … Everything happy at Crown Law … Lack of systems to handle conflict … Seb Tonkin reports