Failure to pay tax, and employees super … Borrowing heavily from his mother … Lacking evidence to support bi-polar claim … Extravagant lifestyle … Generous payments for children and former wife … Jennifer Cooke reports
A tribute to Homer Simpson
Uncategorized Thursday, September 27, 2018Homer mysteriously appears in consent orders … A long way from Springfield … Country solicitor turns on client with complaint to judge, asking for a reconsideration of the orders granted … Client’s interest … Confidentiality … Nick Bonyhady reports
Depression dispatches
Uncategorized Tuesday, September 25, 2018Solicitors losing their grip … Mental health and legal practice … No adequate explanations offered to the stipes … Judges under siege … Where mental health prevents a lawyer dealing with professional complaints … Ticket suspended … Jennifer Cooke reports from the Bureau de Spank
Judicial speedster too heavy on the accelerator
Uncategorized Monday, September 24, 2018UPDATE … 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