The Sal Vasta file … A rummage through recent history … Bombast and bullying … Lashings of contempt … Errors of law … “Mentoring” underway … Ginger Snatch, an associate of judges, reports
Fuel fights
Uncategorized Saturday, August 3, 2019The real world at variance with the claustrophobia of defamation proceedings … Relevant facts missing from judge’s reasons … United Petroleum franchise distress … Damages of $72,347.40 … Default judgment entered and then court approves a warrant for the arrest of the missing respondent … The missing backstory
The future – it’s horrible
Uncategorized Thursday, August 1, 2019Future of Law and Innovation Conference struggled with the technology … Plentiful lunch options … AI … Kirby adjudicated debate on “Uberisation” of lawyers … How to use LinkedIn … Space law … Techno fonts … Lawyerly prospects when technology fails … Justice in the era of “late capitalism” … Theodora reports
Contentious court appointment in the ether
Uncategorized Monday, July 29, 2019Controversial former prosecutor floated as a Federal Court prospect … May be posted to the court’s crime busting unit … Possibly the chief commissioner of attorney general Porter’s “Integrity” Commission … Conjecture alive with possibilities … Judicial eye rolling … Ginger Snatch, associate to judges, reports
A little unusual
Uncategorized Thursday, July 25, 2019*Sigh* … The old trap of sending an email to the wrong person … Judgment more interesting than the catchwords … A glimpse at what goes on underneath the robes … Justice Nye Perram apologises for insulting a litigant … From judges’ associate Ginger Snatch
Departure lounge
Uncategorized Friday, July 19, 2019Wokka bows out after a quarter-century as chief stoker in the Federal Court boiler-room … Sex-obsessed barrister’s ticket gets confiscated … The bar n’ grill sits on his hands for an extended period … Bottom fondling at the LCA … Theodora reports
Appealing solicitors
Uncategorized Tuesday, July 16, 2019The NSW CA turns down two appeals from solicitors in strife with the Bureau de Spank … Old timer’s dodgy dealings with estates and property … Suspended with conditions … Now struck off the jam roll … Another solicitor forgot to tell the Law Society about her suspension as a migration agent … So many things to worry about … Duty of candour … Janek Drevikovsky reports
Shutuppa ya face
Uncategorized Thursday, July 11, 2019Sal Vasta in fresh horror … More bullying, overbearing and threatening conduct from the judge … Vasta makes a pig’s ear out of application to amend a statement of claim … Transcript reveals Vasta’s alarming judicial style … Litigant in person removed from court … Janek Drevikovsky reports