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Robin Tampoe, the former Gold Coast lawyer hired as one of Schapelle Corby’s lawyers by Ron Bakir, has been struck off the roll of solicitors by Queensland’s Legal Practice Tribunal. The decision is here. Removal from the roll is the ultimate sanction in the world of professional discipline, though in circumstances where it is not …
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I have previously expressed my disquiet about the Western Australian QC who told the Australian media that Schapelle Corby’s lawyers were trying to bribe the judges hearing her case. It seems the Bureau de Spanque de l’Australie de l’Ouest had in fact got right onto it, initiating an own motion investigation. The resultant prosecution has …
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Update, 10 June 2009: Mr Tampoe has been struck off the roll of solicitors. Update, 7 July 2008: Watch the video of Tampoe slagging off his client here. Original post: Lawyers and their regulators should care about the Corby case, because at the relevant time, a lot of people loved Schapelle and Schapelle does not …
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I’m off to Bali and Java soon. An instructress too and as I gathered together for her some good places to stay in Bali today, I thought to share them with you; my other post about Bali is lost in the increasingly large archives. Brush up on the Schapelle Corby saga before you go to improve …
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I have been saying for a while now that Schapelle Corby’s saga is a case study in the importance of choosing your legal team wisely. Moss v Eagleston [2014] NSWSC 6 provides further analysis of the performance of a lawyer selected by another of the players in the saga. That selection was a selection made by …
Do things move slowly in Western Australia? I wrote about an estate matter which went on and on and on here. Now a twenty-seven year old proceeding, which came to have as one of its defendants a famous QC has been dismissed for want of prosecution and the decision confirmed on appeal: Smith v Bank …
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Update, 13 January 2010: See now British American Tobacco Australia Limited v Gordon (No 3) [2009] VSC 619. In Legal Practitioners Complaints Committee v Mark T QC [2009] WASAT 42, the Perth QC who announced to the Australian media that Schapelle Corby’s Balinese lawyers were trying to get money to bribe the judges sought to …
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In Legal Practitioners Complaints Committee and MT QC [2009] WASAT 42, Judge Eckert’s 3 member tribunal considered the application of the rule in Jones v Dunkel to disciplinary prosecutions in tribunals (like VCAT) which are not bound by the rules of evidence. The practitioner sought to have inferences drawn against the prosecutor from the fact …
Registrations close on Wednesday for the Gold Coast conference on the following Sunday to Wednesday. The brochure is here. The list of speakers, sessions, and papers is here. Gino Dal Pont, Adrian Evans, Victoria Marles will all be there along with some interestate counterparts, and some Yanks. Maybe Robin Tampoe will keep them chattering. But …
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Jackson (previously known as Subramaniam) v Legal Practitioners Admission Board [2006] NSWSC 1338. Kala Subramaniam (now Jackson) took the rap for a red light infringement notice addressed to Leigh Johnson, her criminal lawyer boss, maintaing the perjury in court on oath, bragged about it within the law firm she worked in sufficiently obnoxiously to convince …
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