Fishing Expedition

Some of us (not me) may have been on a fishing expedition during our summer holidays. Those memories will begin to fade as the wheels of business start turning for 2015. However, one thing you should remember that it’s not a good idea to go fishing in the...

A Lesson Learned

I recently came across Sir Gerard Brennan’s conference paper titled “Lessons from a life in the law” in which he tells the following anecdote (which he also told at his swearing in as CJ in 1995): “It is nearly 70 years since I first entered a...

Matrimonial causes

Since Gough Whitlam’s passing, there has been a lot of public reflection on the achievements of his government. One of those achievements was the reform of family law and the introduction of no fault divorce under the Family Law Act. Previously under the...

Prohibited Items

If you have ever wondered why you can’t take your badminton racquet on a plane its because it (along with other blunt things that could be used to bludgeon) are prohibited items under regulation 1.07 of the Aviation Transport Security Regulations 2005. Other...

Jeremiad

The very first post to this blog was about Justice Owen’s closing remarks in the mega-case Bell Group Ltd (in liq) v Westpac (No 9) (2008) 39 WAR 1 Following on from last month’s expansion of vocabulary, Owen J appears to like the word...