Certorari & the pharmacist

Q: Why did the pharmacist get charged with 6 counts under the Poisons Act 1964 (WA)? A: Because he didn’t maintain a register for scheduled drugs and didn’t keep those drugs locked in a safe. You might think that fixing up your systems, admitting your...

Bona vacantia

I find legal history and unusual common law principles interesting. So all of my buttons were pressed when I came across  In The Matter Of Bradbury Industrial Services Pty Ltd (In Liq) [2021] VSC 828  which was an insolvency case where: There was an agreement between...

The Coathanger

It was the Sydney Harbour Bridge’s 90th birthday last weekend (on 19th March). I heard a few interesting interviews and decided to research some interesting bridge toll stories (not an oxymoron). Like all large infrastructure projects funding was a problem. You...

I don’t live there!

In 2019 Hammerschlag J ordered the winding up of a (badly in need of repairs and maintenance) company title apartment block at Point Piper. His Honour didn’t disguise his frustration with the parties in his judgment in O’Ryan v Golding [2019] NSWSC 1229. He...

Spaghetti Monster

This is only the second time in the history of this blog that the topic has been about a non-Australian case (and I am grateful for the bar librarian’s sense of humour and the link to this case in the bar library’s 21 January newsletter). The case is a...