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Earlier this week the NSW Court of Appeal in Resource Pacific Pty Ltd v Wilkinson [2103] NSWCA 33 considered the question of the adequacy of judicial reasons for judgment. The following is [...]

  To give you a glimpse of the blindingly obvious, I will commence by saying that a lawyer’s ethical responsibilities in the practice of advocacy spring from his or her “paramount” and [...]

Yesterday the Victorian Court of Appeal handed down a decision on the qualification of psychiatrists to give expert evidence as to the common behaviour of child victims of sexual abuse within families [...]

  You may lose a case in the short term. You then move on to the next one. Time should heal any pain of losing a case. But if you lose your [...]

  “Submission advocacy embraces a multitude of different things.  It includes addressing a jury in a criminal trial; addressing a judge on points of law that arise in the course of the [...]

                                       WINE – LAW CONFERENCE                                                        SOCIAL MEDIA   [...]

John Tarrant – Amending Final Judgments and Orders The Federation Press -2010     It was a timely coincidence that I first commenced reading John Tarrant’s book Amending Final Judgments and Orders [...]

The 2012 release of Chloe Hooper’s latest book, the psychological thriller, The Engagement, presents an occassion to re-visit my 2009  Justinian review of her earlier work. Death in custody … Tall Man, which tracks the [...]

This joint advice written in October last year and made public, canvasses a number of implications for the Government in respect of its proposed  19 September 2011 amendments to section 198A of [...]

It will be interesting to see how the Parliament approaches the foreshadowed amendments to the Migration Act 1958  to permit the offshore processing of asylum seekers in Nauru and Papua New Guinea in [...]