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General Principles Appeals on Damages – Part 6 by Craig Hobbs POTTS V FROST – FULL COURT – CONTINGENCIES   It is trite to say that when assessing future components of a [...]

Case notes: Two local cases of interest – by Kate Mooney Yates & Yates [2012] FamCAFC 138 On 7 September 2012 a Full Court of the Family Court, comprised of Finn, Strickland [...]

Access Orders and Child Protection Proceedings – Comment There has been a noticeable change in recent times in the types of orders the Court is prepared to make in child protection proceedings.  [...]

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 [...]

  General Principles – Appeals on Damages – Part 4 by Craig Hobbs POTTS V FROST – FULL COURT – GENERAL DAMAGES – CIVIL LIABILITY ACT 2002 – SECTION 28   One [...]

Handy Hints for Separate Representatives in the Child Protection Jurisdiction July 2012 Kate Mooney and Theresa Eaton   The role of the Separate Representative is constantly developing and expectations are changing with [...]

Written Advocacy   This paper is not intended to explore the academic or theoretical issues of written advocacy. For those interested in those facets of the new advocacy there is an excellent [...]

General Principles – Appeals on Damages – Part 3 by Craig Hobbs POTTS v FROST – FULL COURT – CHALLENGE TO THE PRECISE MATHEMATICAL APPROACH ADOPTED BY THE TRIAL JUDGE IN ASSESSING [...]

SECURITY FOR COSTS   Whether you win the exercise of the judge’s discretion or whether you don’t on an application for security for costs will depend on how well you persuade. That [...]