by Paul Cutler | Apr 3, 2024 | Uncategorised
While listening to news radio this week I heard about a proposal to change the law in relation to living in a caravan on your own land. Living in caravans (or anything for that matter) is, of course, topical because of the housing crisis. Caravans – the current...
by Paul Cutler | Feb 28, 2024 | Uncategorised
There have been some stand out examples of vexatious litigants over the years. You may remember Mr Wilson (the trial by jury guy) or Mr Skyring (the currency guy). My interest was recently piqued when I read an article about an ACT solicitor who was recently declared...
by Paul Cutler | Jan 31, 2024 | Uncategorised
You may have noticed that for the first time in around 10 years of writing this blog, that there haven’t been any posts for a couple of months. There were lots of things happening late last year, including the winding up of my old chambers and the move to new...
by Paul Cutler | Oct 30, 2023 | Uncategorised
Courteous correspondence (or lack of it) has been the subject of posts to this blog several times in the past. This week I think I have found the low point. A solicitor in the NT was fined $770 (7 penalty units) for this letter to a client: “Do not call me as...
by Paul Cutler | Sep 27, 2023 | Uncategorised
Judge Salvatore Vasta’s decision to imprison Mr Stradford (a pseudonym) for contempt of the former Federal Circuit Court in 2018 was promptly reversed by the Full Family Court. The Full Court had described the process to be “so devoid of procedural...
by Paul Cutler | Aug 23, 2023 | Uncategorised
The Bell Group litigation was the subject of my first ever post to this blog back in June 2009. In September 2020, it was up to Master Sanderson to make orders terminating the winding up. I have set out the whole judgment in full below. It’s not very long. If...
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