Perusing this month’s Register of Disciplinary Listings published by the NSW Legal Services Commissioner we find the name of Jamie Darams SC.
It seems Jamie has been pinged for groping female solicitors during Christmas drinks in 2023 at a hotel in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs.
As explained by the Commissioner’s office, the employment law silk from Greenway Chambers “engaged in unwanted touching of a female solicitor (KE)”.
Two items of handsy activities were identified:
• Darams, who was silked in 2023, ran his hand along KE’s body from the top of her back to down past her backside, while they were both standing.
• Shortly afterwards, KE sat down on a stool at a tall bar table where Darams and other colleagues were gathered. He then ran his hand along KE’s leg from her thigh to her knee. His hand was underneath the table and KE moved her leg. His hand then went along her leg from her thigh to her knee. This happened on two further occasions with KE pushing his hand away.
That’s not all. There is another set of findings by the OLSC against the Silken Octopus – relating to the same Christmas knees-up hosted by a Sydney law shop, but a fresh victim:
Darams SC engaged in unsatisfactory professional conduct when he:
Ground 3: Engaged in unwanted sexual touching towards a female solicitor when he grabbed her backside while she was on the dance floor.
For each of the assaulted women Jamie was slapped for $10,000; a reprimand; a written apology to KE and her employer; plus a minimum of 10 hours at the reeducation camp to address sexual harassment, respect for women, and intoxication.
Some people are slow to realise that the days of bad boy behaviour have long gone. The obvious danger zones are Christmas and a new silk gown – accompanied by plenty of refreshments.
We asked Darams for a comment but nothing came back before publication. Maybe he could join Handsy Heydon at the Australian Club’s Old Gropers lunch table.
One of Dicey’s victims, Rachael Patterson Collins, has just published a piece in the Nine papers arguing that the scramble to restore the reputation of the former High Court judge is insulting. Janet Albrechtsen’s blind eye to Haydon’s indecent assault also comes in for a stinging rebuke.
Blowing into Darwin
Immediate past CJ of Van Diemen’s land, Alan Blow, has fetched up at the Northern Territory’s Palace of Justice – having left the island state in the hands of Christopher Shenanigans.
From the Bottom End to the Top End in one fell swoop. The NT Supremes needs all the help it can get and Blowers is on hand to run the trial of “celebrity crocodile wrangler” Matthew Wright, facing three counts of attempting to pervert the course of justice.
Our local field agent, Buffalo Bruce, advises that Wrangler Wright is the star of Netflix’s Wild Croc Territory and is something of a local identity.
Few people are more suited to handling crocodile connected criminal trials than Alan Blow.
In 2022 a helicopter crashed during a crocodile egg collecting mission resulted in the death of Wright’s co-star, Chris “Willow” Wilson.
The pilot, Sebastian Robinson, survived the crash but suffered serious injuries.
The allegation is that Wrangler lied to police, pressured the pilot to alter flight records so that they met service requirements, and attempted to destroy evidence.
The defence told the court that the air safety regulator found evidence of cocaine in Robinson’s system and the helicopter was suffering from “fuel exhaustion”.
Edwardson: medical condition suppressedBlow has to decide whether the police should provide to the defence phone records from Noelene Chellingworth, who is Robinson’s mother and an employee in his business.
In the meantime, the judge issued a suppression order, which “applies to any discussion in court of Mr Edwardson’s medical condition and records”.
Adelaide brief David Edwardson KC is representing Wrangler Wright. The ABC reported that a new trial date has been set for July 28, and the reason for that is connected to the suppression order.
Last we heard about Edwardson was that he successfully defended NT copper Zachary Rolfe, who was charged with the shooting murder of 19-year old Aboriginal man Kumanjayi Walker.