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24 Oct 2003

Rugby sacri-‘bleu’-legeAlready nervously eyeing a cavalcade of lopsided blowouts during the tournament so far, Rugby World Cup officials will thi...

20 Oct 2003

Obiter – 17 October

Parrot yearning In a flap over his long lost parrot, a US man has asked a Washington Court to allow him to question the bird he claims is rightfully ...

20 Oct 2003

Courtroom Quotes – 17 October

Last week the nation stopped to celebrate the High Court’s Centenary. Today, Folklaw celebrates the nine year anniversary of one of the NSW Supreme ...

20 Oct 2003

Fat cat gets birdie

Fat cat gets birdie Undoubtedly, the recent Mallesons Stephen Jaques-sponsored Pro-Am in Brisbane generated much interest among the city’s ‘fat c...

13 Oct 2003

AARbsolutely mAARvellous

If only Richie, Tony, Bill et al at the Channel 9 commentary team could get their laughing gear around this wonderful item of sporting memorabilia dur...

7 Oct 2003

Obiter

Right way roundSuggestions that life on the NSW Central Coast can be a bit backward are a thing of the past.Last month, local authorities put their f...

7 Oct 2003

Courtroom Quotes

Today we take a look at some of the best vignettes judicial exchanges have to offer. They are taken from a book called Disorder in Court, the publishe...

7 Oct 2003

Thrown to the dogs

Thrown to the dogsIt seems as though being recognised as Australia’s greyhound racing capital is not good enough anymore for the new set of latte s...

7 Oct 2003

Occasional swoon

His scathing report of the Queensland Law Society’s (QLS) handling of complaints, many of which were against no win, no fee firm Baker Johnson, left...

26 Sep 2003

Conveyancing bummer

Trouble on the high seasA scare for a couple of Australian firms in Hong Kong last week. Three lawyers, understood to be from Mallesons and Allens, d...

19 Sep 2003

Nudity unstemmed

When Piper Alderman had the chance to celebrate its role in establishing the newly launched National Stem Cell Centre it sure didn’t keep any tricks...

19 Sep 2003

Benched on stage

Benched on stageMore accustomed to presiding over courtroom theatre, three elderly US judges last week tried their hand at a much larger and foreign ...

11 Sep 2003

Redlich v Redlic

Redlich v RedlichThe incestuousness of the law can sometimes throw up some provoking scenarios such as one last month in the Supreme Court of Victori...

11 Sep 2003

Tumbler comes clean

Thredbo’s slopes are once again pure as the driven snow, with the pall of blood and intrigue hanging over this year’s Lanier Lawski race having be...

27 Aug 2003

Xmas Card tricks

The people at John Sands and Hallmark aren’t the only ones feeling the heat of the annual Christmas Card battle.Deep within the City of Churches a f...

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