Regent Leisuretime Limited v Skerrett [2006] EWCA 1184 is a lovely reliance on counsel case. You can read a precis here.

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Wells’s Case [2006] VCAT 2370 (Senior Member Howell, 16 November 2006)
Mrs Wells's case, also the subject of the previous post, was struck out under s. 75 of the VCAT Act, 1998 for having been brought out of time. Mr Howell found that the case was "lacking in substance" because it was statute barred and ordered [...]

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Wells's Case [2006] VCAT 2370 (Senior Member Howell, 16 November 2006)
I have always thought I was the only person in the world who held the view that an unsuccessful claimant in the Legal Profession Tribunal was not allowed, despite s. 133(2) of the Legal Practice Act, 1996 to have a second go in the courts, [...]

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Update: 14 October 2007  The Court of Appeal refused leave to appeal, and the High Court refused special leave to appeal too, on 5 October 2007.
In Victorian Bar Inc v DAP, [2006] VCAT 2293 Judge Bowman, Tony Southall QC and T Harper suspended the barrister's practising certificate for 6 months and ordered him to pay [...]

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In Geelong School Supplies Pty Ltd v Dean [2006] FCA 1404, the facts and outcome of which are described in the previous post, Justice Young went to some lengths to summarise the law on the third basis articulated by Brooking JA in Spincode for restraining solicitors from acting. The relevant parts of the decision are [...]

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Geelong School Supplies Pty Ltd v Dean [2006] FCA 1404Justice Neil Young, who has just resigned after less than a year in the job as a Federal Court judge in order to return to the bar, took the exceptional step of restraining a solictor from continuing to act in order to protect the administration of [...]

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In B (A Solicitor) v Victorian Lawyers RPA Ltd (2002) 6 VR 642 (Ormiston, Charles and Batt JJA), the majority criticised the Chairman of the Full Legal Profession Tribunal for retorting to the solicitor's submission that "These proceedings are a full time occupation for me" with "Occupation or obsession, Mr [G]?". They said it was [...]

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B (A Solicitor) v Victorian Lawyers RPA Ltd (2002) 6 VR 642 (Ormiston, Charles and Batt JJA)
The Law Institute corresponded with the solicitors in this matter between 1998 and October 2000. The CEO Ian Dunn, wrote what is known in the game as "a Murray letter" on 16 October 2000. That is a letter summarising [...]

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B (A Solicitor) v Victorian Lawyers RPA Ltd (2002) 6 VR 642 (Ormiston, Charles and Batt JJA)
The Law Institute of Victoria Limited used to be named Victorian Lawyers RPA Ltd. It, and the Victorian Bar, were the only two RPAs (Recognised Professional Associations) set up under the Legal Practice Act, 1996, which allowed for an [...]

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In K v Legal Services Board [2006] VCAT 2303 (see previous post) Bowman J was critical of, and did not follow Law Institute of Victoria Limited v Michel (T0211 of 2004), a decision of the Full Legal Profession Tribunal chaired by Judge Dee to grant a rehearing after having made a final order, on the [...]

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