Chief Justice Andrew Bell has delivered a speech at the 4th Judicial Roundtable at Durham University – “Truth Decay and its implications for the judiciary: an Australian perspective” tinyurl.com/3asezm5e #auslaw
'The matter comes before me in the Common Law Duty List which is being conducted remotely by audio visual link from the Coffs Harbour Court complex, where I am managing a jury in a murder trial. The patent absurdity of that situation does not bear comment'...
Blackthorne: Some of these are funny, but the thing that most of you are getting wrong about this meme isn’t just that Mariko summarizes what Blackthorne says, she takes all the teeth out of it and makes it more deferential.
Apparently Peter Dutton was mildly inconvenienced by another driver on his way to work this morning and, while no one was killed, in terms of social significance, it was akin to Gallipoli
Special Leave granted in Birketu v Atanskovic - which considers whether a law firm that acts for itself in litigation is entitled to recover under an award of costs the internal cost of work done by its employed solicitors (NSWCA decision here - caselaw.nsw.gov.au/decision/18c66… )
'The attendant permits entry to the Ladies Lounge only by ladies. Although the term lady maybe a loaded one, for the purposes of this case it is interchangeable with woman.' MONA required to allow non-ladies into the Ladies Lounge austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdo…