by Paul Cutler | Feb 1, 2016 | Uncategorised
I don’t usually blog about overseas judgments, but as I’ve just come back from North America, I thought I would share the humour of the Court of Appeal of Alberta in R v Pelech, 2012 ABCA 134 at [2]: At about 2:00 a.m. on December 6, 2009, an Edmonton...
by Paul Cutler | Dec 18, 2015 | Uncategorised
As the 2015 court term draws to a close I was looking for a Christmas theme to blog about. With the able assistance (again) of Luke Fermanis of my chambers I was directed to paragraph 4 of Adamson J’s judgment in Murphy v Zeitouneh [2015] NSWSC 876 : The...
by Paul Cutler | Nov 26, 2015 | Uncategorised
This month, I will let the judgment of Smithers J in Grant v Headland (1977) 17 ACTR 29, speak for itself, other than to say I doubt that Mr Grant (who served 1 month in prison with a 2 year good behaviour bond) would be dealt with so leniently in 2015: In May 1977...
by Paul Cutler | Oct 23, 2015 | Uncategorised
Bogus is not generally a word I associate with legislation. I am in fact much more inclined to think of the 1991 movie “Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey” which co-starred a very young Keanu Reeves. However, “bogus document” is defined in the...
by Paul Cutler | Sep 24, 2015 | Uncategorised
A large number of the solicitors who have briefed me over the years have heard me preach about my one man crusade against service by post. Service sounds like a simple concept. It is. So why are there a disproportionate number of cases about service in the...
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