Crinia Tinnula

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...

Baby Farmers

I recently read Annie Cossin’s book “The Baby Farmers” (which the publisher sent to me in the hope that I might blog about it – be careful what you wish for!). As well as being the story of John and Sarah Makin, it is also a glimpse into life...

New Delhi Trip

Here’s a photo of me (assisted by curry and Kingfisher) on Feroz Shah Kotla which is the current test cricket venue in New Delhi. For those of you that might be thinking you didn’t know I was good at cricket, it’s because I’m not....

The Fence

On 18 December 2008, three Sri Lankans escaped from the Christmas Island detention facility to avoid being put on a plane that was booked for the following day to take them back to Sri Lanka.  While, it’s not a crime to arrive in Australia without a visa and...

Ouch!

Thankfully, barristers are prohibited from conducting correspondence in their own name on behalf of anyone else (see NSW Barrister’s Rule 17(b)). As a result I can’t poke fun at judicial comments about aggro correspondence by counsel. However, it would...

Lawyer’s Correspondence #2

Back in July 2009 (when this blog was 3 posts old) I wrote about some inappropriate correspondence between solicitors. I have just come across Ezzo v Grille [2003] NSWSC 776, which, somewhat ironically, is a defamation case. The correspondence and Justice...