by Paul Cutler | Mar 24, 2022 | Uncategorised
It was the Sydney Harbour Bridge’s 90th birthday last weekend (on 19th March). I heard a few interesting interviews and decided to research some interesting bridge toll stories (not an oxymoron). Like all large infrastructure projects funding was a problem. You...
by Paul Cutler | Feb 25, 2022 | Uncategorised
In 2019 Hammerschlag J ordered the winding up of a (badly in need of repairs and maintenance) company title apartment block at Point Piper. His Honour didn’t disguise his frustration with the parties in his judgment in O’Ryan v Golding [2019] NSWSC 1229. He...
by Paul Cutler | Jan 28, 2022 | Uncategorised
This is only the second time in the history of this blog that the topic has been about a non-Australian case (and I am grateful for the bar librarian’s sense of humour and the link to this case in the bar library’s 21 January newsletter). The case is a...
by Paul Cutler | Dec 23, 2021 | Uncategorised
I have been appearing in a long running property matter in the SCNSW which Justice Arthur Emmett QC has personally case managed. I am very grateful for the patience, practical approach and pragmatism which his Honour brought to (an emotionally at least) difficult...
by Paul Cutler | Nov 29, 2021 | Uncategorised
Christmas party season for 2021 is upon us (but it feels a bit subdued to me). However, it’s still a good time to blog about the risks of the office party, most of which don’t end up in workers’ comp claims like this one did…. Imagine nine or...
by Paul Cutler | Oct 29, 2021 | Uncategorised
I recently read McHugh J’s paper entitled: “The Judicial Method”. McHugh J cites Gewirtz, “On ‘I Know It When I See It'”, (1996) 105 Yale Law Journal 1023 at 1025 as authority for his statement that: “The necessity for an...
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