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...
by Paul Cutler | Jul 26, 2023 | Uncategorised
In the early hours of 12 July 1979, Skylab (NASA’s first space station) fell out of orbit and crashed to earth. Although it scattered wreckage in an arc over the Indian Ocean parts of it came to rest at Balladonia in Western Australia. That would be Balladonia,...
by Paul Cutler | Jun 27, 2023 | Uncategorised
Chat GPT was recently taken for a test run by Justice Leeming as he prepared his paper to present to the Aviation Law Association of Australia & NZ. In collaboration with his son, his Honour initially thought he would use it to find a title for his paper. Some of...
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