by Paul Cutler | May 26, 2014 | Uncategorised
In November 2009, Luke Webster was summarily dismissed from his position as a teacher (of adult students whose first language was not english) at Mercury Colleges Pty Ltd in Sydney. The basis for the dismissal was gross misconduct arising after the Director of...
by Paul Cutler | Apr 28, 2014 | Uncategorised
Andrew Kostopoulos (a member of my chambers) has been appearing at ICAC (in the enquiry that resulted in the premier’s resignation). On the morning of 7 April 2014, after inviting colleagues to a Hellenic Filoxenia, he raised the following issue: “Second...
by Paul Cutler | Mar 24, 2014 | Uncategorised
During his long practise at the Victorian criminal bar, David Ross QC (who died in 2009) kept a set of notes and a list of cases which he organised alphabetically by topic. He meticulously updated these notes as the law changed and new cases were decided. It was these...
by Paul Cutler | Feb 25, 2014 | Uncategorised
The Family Court has power to make declarations about the validity of a marriage or divorce or to make such other declarations as are justified. One of the more unusual uses of that power arose after Mr Victor lodged his Notice of Intention to Marry with Births Deaths...
by Paul Cutler | Jan 29, 2014 | Uncategorised
While informal will cases are not that uncommon, there appeared to be an outbreak of technology related ones in late 2013. The NSW Supreme Court admitted “will.doc” (found on the deceased’s hard disk) to probate in Yazbec v Yazbec [2012] NSWSC 594....
by Paul Cutler | Dec 19, 2013 | Uncategorised
Environmental issues are often the bane of developers. For instance, the watercourse which ran across the bottom of my suburban back yard in Gordon (which I thought of as an open storm water drain) was actually a category 3 riparian zone which caused issues for...
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