by Paul Cutler | Sep 30, 2025 | Uncategorised
When a judgment starts with “several remarkable things happened in the Dubbo Local Court that day” it’s a fair indication that it’s blog worthy. The case involved a Mr Peckham who was arrested for a breach of an ADVO at around 10:50am. He was...
by Paul Cutler | Aug 31, 2025 | Uncategorised
AI has been a frequent topic on this blog recently. Consistent with my twisted sense of humour poking fun at lawyers who don’t check citations and refer to non-existent cases can be amusing. However, what happens when a self represented person uses AI to prepare...
by Paul Cutler | Aug 1, 2025 | Uncategorised
For only the first time in the history of this blog, I have been on holidays and busy and missed two months in a row. Let me remedy that now. What would the start of the new financial year be, without a little tax story about trading stock. I discovered this when I...
by Paul Cutler | May 30, 2025 | Uncategorised
I was lacking ideas for this month’s blog and decided to useClaude AI to “Find me an amusing or funny Australian legal story that I can write a blog about”. Claude came up with the “Bunny Bread Saga” from 2018, which involved a dispute...
by Paul Cutler | Apr 30, 2025 | Uncategorised
Advising on tax deductions and tax law generally is not something that I usually do. However, I recently came across the Full Federal Court case of Commissioner of Taxation v La Rosa [2003] FCAFC 125. In the best traditions of this blog, I was actually looking for the...
by Paul Cutler | Mar 28, 2025 | Uncategorised
The so‑called ‘prosecutor’s fallacy’ describes the risk that the fact finding tribunal will reason that evidence of the match probability or the likelihood ratio expresses the probability that an incriminating DNA sample was the DNA of the accused...
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