by Paul Cutler | Sep 30, 2025 | Uncategorised
When a judgment starts with “several remarkable things happened in the Dubbo Local Court that day” it’s a fair indication that it’s blog worthy. The case involved a Mr Peckham who was arrested for a breach of an ADVO at around 10:50am. He was...
by Paul Cutler | Aug 31, 2025 | Uncategorised
AI has been a frequent topic on this blog recently. Consistent with my twisted sense of humour poking fun at lawyers who don’t check citations and refer to non-existent cases can be amusing. However, what happens when a self represented person uses AI to prepare...
by Paul Cutler | Aug 1, 2025 | Uncategorised
For only the first time in the history of this blog, I have been on holidays and busy and missed two months in a row. Let me remedy that now. What would the start of the new financial year be, without a little tax story about trading stock. I discovered this when I...
by Paul Cutler | May 30, 2025 | Uncategorised
I was lacking ideas for this month’s blog and decided to useClaude AI to “Find me an amusing or funny Australian legal story that I can write a blog about”. Claude came up with the “Bunny Bread Saga” from 2018, which involved a dispute...
by Paul Cutler | Apr 30, 2025 | Uncategorised
Advising on tax deductions and tax law generally is not something that I usually do. However, I recently came across the Full Federal Court case of Commissioner of Taxation v La Rosa [2003] FCAFC 125. In the best traditions of this blog, I was actually looking for the...