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Entries in Barristers' fees (5)

Wednesday
May042022

$7000 a day, regardless

Alec Shand v Jackson McDonald ... Excessive and unreasonable fees ... Law firm refuses to cough-up for Laurie Connell defence ... Charging for time not worked ... Unprepared ... Scandalous, even for a second-hand car dealer ... Gouging the rich ... Stephen Archer on hand ... From Justinian's archive, September 1999 

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Monday
Oct272014

Self-promotion

Academics scramble to peddle influence with High Court judges ... Government seeks new role for s.18C ... Twenty-one years later, the cheque arrives ... Would you eat at a cafe owned by a Cabinet minister? 

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Tuesday
Apr232013

Government's bar bill

Crown keeping a tight rein on barrister expenses in NSW ... Funding for the bar virtually unchanged for two-and-a-half years ... Top fee last year for Crown Solicitor's civil work was $1,054,501.25 ... Full list of fees paid ... Another scoop from Justinian 

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Tuesday
Mar122013

Cost agreements and paying your barrister

Unsuccessful claim by solicitors that a costs agreements with a barrister is unenforceable ... Legal Profession Act allows fees to be recovered by a barrister from a solicitor even where there is no legal services contract 

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Friday
Oct122012

Fee, fi, fo, fight 

Sydney silk in fees stoush with Brisbane law shop ... Court of Appeal refuses to strike out solicitors' defence and cross-claim ... Allegation of overcharging ... Ballooning estimates 

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