by Paul Cutler | Jul 23, 2015 | Uncategorised
Some of you may have read this story in the press recently. Victoria Police launched a Facebook campaign for information from the public in respect of an arrest warrant that was issued for Bendigo man, Daniel Damon after he failed to answer bail for drug and traffic...
by Paul Cutler | Jun 23, 2015 | Uncategorised
I was recently reading an article in the Australian Feminist Law Journal (who would have thought?) entitled “Telling a History of Australian Women Judges Through Courts’ Ceremonial Archives”. At a judicial swearing in, speeches are given to welcome...
by Paul Cutler | May 27, 2015 | Uncategorised
In Wollongong City Council v Dr Masood Falamaki [2010] NSWLEC 66, Dr Falamaki managed to convince Justice Craig that prior to delivery of a reserved judgment he should hear a submission, to be put on his behalf by “plenipotentiary judge David-Wynn Miller from...
by Paul Cutler | Apr 28, 2015 | Uncategorised
Many of the ideas that inspire posts on this blog are accidental discoveries made while looking for something else. This post falls into that category. I was recently briefed in an appeal from an AAT decision in relation to an erroneous customs classification of an...
by Paul Cutler | Mar 23, 2015 | Uncategorised
“Perhaps the greatest of all the fallacies entertained by lay people about the law … is that the business of a court of justice is to discover the truth. Its real business is to pronounce upon the justice of particular claims.”1 In 2006 two NSW Supreme Court...
by Paul Cutler | Feb 27, 2015 | Uncategorised
Breaking with common law tradition (which didn’t provide a right of appeal), NSW introduced legislation in 1911 which ultimately created the Court of Criminal Appeal. The following ditty (entitled “Three Blind Mice”) which is recited in...
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