In Macteldir Pty Limited v Roskov [2007] FCAFC 49, the subject of the last post but one, the Full Federal Court explained the ambit of Order 62 rule 9 of the Federal Court Rules (which is reproduced in the previous post):
'The Relevant Principles
[56] The parties generally accepted as correct the statements of principle found in [...]

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In Winn v GHB [2007] VSC 360, a barrister was personally a party in some litigation. She was admitted in Victoria but at the relevant time was practising in Brisbane under a Queensland practising certificate. She taxed her solicitors' fees, and acted for herself. She appealed successfully from the order of the Taxing Master. [...]

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In Macteldir Pty Limited v Roskov [2007] FCAFC 49, my old firm Middletons convinced a unanimous Full Federal Court to pronounce sternly that advocates' immunity may not be circumvented by a client seeking to invoke the wasted costs jurisdiction of the Court against its own former lawyers, and to re-emphasise emphatically that the wasted [...]

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This blog is published with Wordpress. While I was watching the waves in Bali, Wordpress's page view counter clicked over 50,000. You looked at this thing on average 225 times a day.  If you want a blog of the same design calibre as this one, let me know, and I'll put you onto a bloke [...]

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Update, 4 October 2008: Here's an excellent article on Bali's resurgent tourism and the environmental challenges it is posing, by The Age's Indonesia correspondent, Mark Forbes.
Original post: This barrister is in Bali. So no new posts until the fury of deadlines which will unleash itself on me again on my return on 19 September 2007 [...]

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