Tweet Friends, no doubt many of you have eaten at Lentil as Anything, the several restaurants where the cost of the meal, if anything, is determined by the diner.  Their founder, Shanaka Fernando, travelled to Australia from his native Sri Lanka to study law, but — smart enough to get in, and smart enough to [...]

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Tweet The Times has an article about a solicitor on the Board of the English legal regulator and former president of the Law Society who, rather embarrassingly, had a conflict of interest determination go against him after a disciplinary investigation.  The solicitor acted pro bono for a barrister who was being sued by an Exxon [...]

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Tweet I staved off a bank’s applications for summary judgment for possession last year, and maintain the battle.  I will not say victory flowed from my argument that the evidence which purported to establish the incorporation of one of Australia’s largest banks was inadmissible, but I did make that argument, and a perfectly valid one [...]

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Tweet The Age‘s Julie Szego has written a substantial article in The Age about barristers and pro bono in Victoria. It arises out of Fiona McLeod SC volunteering her time to represent the Blue Wedges coalition which is opposing the Port of Melbourne’s channel deepening project. The Victorian Bar’s pro bono scheme, administered by Victoria’s [...]

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