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The Queen’s Highway

by | Apr 21, 2010 | Uncategorised

The contribution that (now declared vexatious, self represented serial litigant) Alan George Skyring has made to the annals of legal history has only recently come to my attention. There will inevitably be more posts about him and his activities. One of Mr...

Upskirting

by | Mar 22, 2010 | Uncategorised

On 9 October 2007, the (Victorian) Summary Offences Amendment (Upskirting) Bill received royal assent. The purpose of the legislation is to make it an offence “in certain circumstances to observe, or capture or distribute visual images of, the genital or anal...

Dogs and Cats

by | Feb 14, 2010 | Uncategorised

I have a theory that much can be learned about a society from what activities are classed as crimes and that much social history can be traced by looking at the way those laws evolve with time. This is the first post in a series that will test this theory by looking...

Keeping up to date

by | Jan 31, 2010 | Uncategorised

It may come as a shock to some foreign lawyers (particularly to US attorneys) to learn that it is illegal for Australian lawyers to charge their fees on the basis of a % of the verdict obtained for the client. This has always been the case, but when maintenance and...

The torch

by | Jan 2, 2010 | Uncategorised

I don’t think that reading a court list has ever made me laugh before, but the entry below from the Supreme Court of NSW last year did. I don’t remember the date that this appeared but it is genuine. I have also done a case search to see how Tosha went in...