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Julian Burnside QC is one of 4 Victorians whom I know to have had Wikipedia entries as barristers. The others are Mark Dreyfus QC, Lex Lasry QC, and Peter Faris QC. (Are there any others?) Julian Burnside has become a writer, Mark Dreyfus a federal politician, and Lex Lasry a judge of the Supreme Court. …
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Update, 10 June 2008: The Bar’s Ethics Committee dropped the investigation without giving reasons. Update, 23 November: The press just can’t seem to believe that anyone would be called Issac Brott, inevitably reverting to the more plausible Isaac Brott. And nor do they seem to be reading this blog. Here’s The Australian again claiming the …
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Update: 26 December 2007 And again, this time on the subject of drink. Peter Faris used to drink a lot of it. Then one day he stopped. Cold turkey. Original post: You will have noticed that this blog is a blog in part about lawyers, with a bias towards Victorian lawyers. Here is an article …
Arena Management Pty Ltd (Receiver & Manager Appointed) v Campbell Street Theatre Pty Ltd [2011] NSWCA 128 examines the nature of the appeal rights of non-parties against whom personal costs orders are made. In that case, the unfortunate person against whom such an order was made was a liquidator. But in the course of his …
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Welcome to the blogosphere to Andrew Downie. He is a barrister in Melbourne Chambers, of which I am a member. Alarmingly, he nominates Williams’ Civil Procedure as his favourite book. He is blogging about commercial law at The Civil Lawyer. He is tweeting too. I know of another barrister of Melbourne Chambers who will soon, …
Update, 7 June 2008: The Age‘s weekend magazine had a front cover profile of Dave Hughes, and the same day the June Australian Financial Review Magazine had a front cover profile of Tom Hughes. Diverse and powerful as Tom’s family is, I do not think it counts Dave as a member. This is the most …
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Happy new year, readers. 2007 was a big one for me, and it seems that lots of interesting things happened. So I made a list. The Bar: My senior mentor, Peter Riordan SC, was elected Chairman of the Bar Council. Peter Hayes QC died, and the Ethics Committee took Peter Faris to task for commenting …
Today’s Law Report is a panel discussion set up by its presenter, Damien Carrick, at a recent conference of legal regulators in Brisbane. There is a hypothetical about a sole practitioner who goes off the rails, and there’s discussion about the inexplicable controversy over Dr Haneef’s barrister Stephen Keim SC’s provision of his client’s transcript …
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There are a few out there. Most prominent is Peter Faris QC, one of the irrascible characters of the Victorian Bar about whom I have posted before. He rails against Islamic fundamentalism and what he perceives as the West’s wimpish response, and puts up hoops for civil liberties loving folk like me to jump their …
I found some useful web resources yesterday. First, Peter Faris QC publishes blogs which do no more than consolidate in one place all the court-provided information (what I think of as the unreported version of a headnote) about the decisions of the High Court, Supreme Court of Victoria, and Victorian Court of Appeal. Each court’s …