Sheep parables

My curiosity was recently piqued by a 2018 article by Gaegler J called “Truth and justice, and sheep”. It is actually quite a serious article about the inter-relationship of truth and justice. So what have sheep got to do this topic? His Honour uses three...

Offensive Email

In August 2013, the applicant was charged with an offence under the Commonwealth Criminal Code of using a carriage service in a manner that reasonable persons would regard as being offensive. The matter was dealt with summarily in the Local Court and she was...

Prejudgment

As luck would have it I came across another (not) fair and impartial case in the past few weeks. This time it’s a prejudgment case. I didn’t set out to write related blog posts in pairs, but here we go anyway. This time, it was in a judge alone criminal...

Fair and Impartial

It is a cornerstone principle of the administration of justice that Judges are fair and impartial. Thankfully, allegations of bias are not common (and it is rare for them to be proved). However, there are always outliers as the case of Charisteas in the Family Court...

Fitness First

At the end of last month’s post, I alluded to a long running dispute between Ms Dubow and Fitness First. Apparently (according to Nine News she was a founding member of Fitness First and entitled to lifetime fixed fees). Weight dropping This all started to...