by Paul Cutler | Feb 23, 2018 | Uncategorised
On Australia Day, Radio National’s Law Report replayed an episode about the birth and development of our legal system. How did our democracy and strong independent legal system evolve from a bunch of desperate convicts and their jailers? This post was inspired...
by Paul Cutler | Jan 29, 2018 | Uncategorised
You’ve probably noticed over the holidays that NSW has introduced a refund scheme on various drink containers and there have been a few media stories about the Reverse Vending Machines. The details of how it all works are set out in Schedule 1 of the Waste Avoidance...
by Paul Cutler | Nov 17, 2017 | Uncategorised
If you work in HR, this post will give you nightmares. If you are an employee and you want to know how to behave at a Xmas party to ensure you don’t have a job to return to next year, you could follow the example of Mr Keenan (a former team leader at...
by Paul Cutler | Oct 27, 2017 | Uncategorised
A few months ago, I went to a seminar about jury issues that was given by Judge Haesler SC of the District Court. One of the topics was the procedure which has to be followed before a judge can accept a majority verdict. Majority verdicts are still controversial and...
by Paul Cutler | Sep 28, 2017 | Uncategorised
There is a requirement that a notice of appeal must identify the grounds briefly but specifically. Draftspersons[deliberate attempt at gender neutral political correctness] would do well to keep the following observations in mind: “It is inherently unlikely that...
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