The business of Chapter 15
Court in the Act • Friday, June 7, 2019 Writing reports for the family courts ... Private consultants and their advice in custody disputes ... Parenting plans and abused children ... Contentious recommendations which sway courts with limited resources ... Lack of alternative "independent" advice ... Harrowing submission to parliamentary inquiry alleging misplaced professional advice about child abuse ... Janek Drevikovsky reports
The "sleek kangaroo" of Bangalow
Around the Firms • Monday, June 3, 2019 He thought it was romance ... She believed it was sexual harassment ... Sal Vasta gets to work on law firm principal's over-wrought advances ... $170,000 awarded to female solicitor trapped at Bangelow law shop with predatory pest ... The perils of trying to stop smoking ... Janek Drevikovsky reports
Judgment of the week
Around the Firms • Friday, May 31, 2019 Piper Alderman's kitchen sink drama ... Who's bullying whom? ... Injunction preventing meeting to sack property partner discharged ... Human rights complaint against law shop still on foot ... The workplace and women lawyers ... Allegations at 10 paces ... Insulting emails ... The works
Love of the French
Wendler on Wine • Thursday, May 30, 2019 Distress that Australia's great wine commentator and educator celebrated his birthday with a selection of French wines ... Born in the wrong year ... Discrimination ... What's wrong with local wines for a well-deserved celebratory toast? ... Gabriel Wendler stirs up a storm in a wine glass ... Epistle to a Burgundian
Credit where credit is due
Court in the Act • Friday, May 24, 2019 The long arm of dishonesty doesn't catch up with an applicant for the provision of "credit services" ... ASIC smells danger but the High Court says spent convictions must be ignored ... Hair-raising collection of ancient offences and scrapes ... Law admission blocked and struck-off as a migration agent and a tax agent ... Janek Drevikovsky reports