by Paul Cutler | Feb 25, 2013 | Uncategorised
We all know that immigration is a highly political topic. However, did you know that it always has been? Legislation dealing with immigration was amongst one of the first acts passed by the new federal parliament in 1901. Section 3 of the Immigration Restriction...
by Paul Cutler | Jan 23, 2013 | Uncategorised
In 1838 Edgar Allan Poe’s only full length novel, “The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket”1 was published. The novel was not a commercial, or literary success. Poe’s novel is a seafaring tale about Arthur Gordon Pym who was a stowaway on a whaling...
by Paul Cutler | Dec 21, 2012 | Uncategorised
I have recently endured (survived?) 120 hours of “L plate” driving with my teenage daughter who (remarkably) passed her driving test at first attempt. In NSW the driving test is booked online and you receive an automated email response from the Road and...
by Paul Cutler | Nov 29, 2012 | Uncategorised
Before it was subsumed into national legislation, the Business Names Act (NSW) (or at least a ministerial order pursuant to it) prohibited registration of business names that erroneously suggested “connection with a royal family” or “royal...
by Paul Cutler | Oct 29, 2012 | Uncategorised
Judges often have the difficult task of deciding which witness’s version of events is more credible. It appears that his Honour Justice Pembroke was not troubled by that difficulty in The Old Kiama Wharf Company v Betohuwisa [2011] NSWSC 823. His Honour starts...
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