Rupert's Bootle Boy
Critics Corner • Monday, July 23, 2018 Peter Lyons in The Dart reviews Les Hinton's The Bootle Boy ... Journalism, ruthless Rupert, hacking, politics & human frailty ... From Liverpool, to Adelaide, to New York, to London ... Globe trotting insider who clung to the boss
The lawyer as wine tourist
Wendler on Wine • Monday, July 23, 2018 Wine man Gabriel Wendler visits the extraordinary Thomas Hardy Wine Library in Adelaide and d'Arenberg's Cube at McLaren Vale ... One of the great wine book collections in the world, while The Cube makes a big impact on the Southern Vales
Greg Tolhurst
On The Couch • Friday, July 20, 2018 Greg Tolhurst is the Executive Director of the NSW Bar Association and he's on Justinian's Couch ... An indoors-outdoors sort of person ... Huge pile of books beside his bed ... Lots of music ... Running the bar association at a time of considerable disruption ... Bin Chicken SC and Bullfry practising without tickets ... Dinner table banter ... Dessert and drumming ... No hot sun but more vitamin D
Self-represented lawyers and their fees
Bar Talk • Friday, July 13, 2018 Lawyers who act for themselves have a fee-earner for a client ... Breakthrough from the NSW Court of Appeal ... Chorley principle extends to barristers ... Happily, all brands of lawyers can now charge fees for representing themselves in litigation ... Stephen Murray reports courtside
It's a Lottery
Hellfire Club • Friday, July 6, 2018 Busy time at the Bureau de Spank ... Barrister's breach of undertakings ... Telling pork pies to the court ... Solicitor lets non-lawyer husband have access to her firm's trust account ... Unauthorised withdrawals ... Lack of professional candour ... Stephen Murray reports from the Hellfire Club