Holding onto Hope: Gina Rinehart's Bleak House ... Seeking chunks of the huge iron ore pit, Hope Downs ... Tracing the tangled Wright, Hancock, Rinehart litigation ... Allegations of fraud against the family trust ... Manouvering ... Tax "advice" ... Shifting vesting date ... Money, the root of unhappiness ... Anthony-James Kanaan reports ... Read more >>
Rupert World ... Lord Moloch’s pal Doug the Diva – driving Washington spare … News UK’s model for unionism … What next for the Washington Post? … Concealed coal lobbyists running an anti-Teal campaign … More corruption busting for Stinging Nettle … The litigation industry spawned by Lehrmann ... Read on >>
Party time for Dicey ... Heydon's book - a pathway to rehabilitation ... The predatory man and the clever intellect - all wrapped up in the one person ... Academic tome and cancel agenda ... Despite the plaudits the record of abuse doesn't vanish ... Book launch with young associates at a safe distance ... Procrustes thinks out loud ... Read more >>
Debbie Does Damien ... Mortimer's first public interview as CJ ... ABC's Law Report ... The ins and out of live streaming and the media's access to documents ... More >>
Conclave Part 2: Return of the Prodigal ... Vatican fraudster returns ... Fly in the Conclave ointment ... Claims to have been forgiven by Pope Francis ... Doubts about his entitlement to vote ... What can go wrong? ... Silvana Olivetti reports from Rome ... Read more >>
Letter from Rome ... Judges on strike ... Too much "reform" ... Berlusconi legacy ... Referendum on the way ... Constitutional court inflames the Meloni regime with decision on boat people ... Insults galore ... Silvana Olivetti reports ... Read more >>
Tea is for Tippy ... Life of a tiffstaff ... Bright, ambitious and, when it comes to the crucial things, hopeless ... Milking the glory of the gig ... Introducing Tippy, our new blogger filing from within the concrete cage at Queens Square ... From Justinian's Archive, March 15, 2010 ... Read more >>
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Around The Firms • Wednesday, June 12, 2013 Over-billing in PI cases rears its unattractive head, again, as wounded Keddies partner takes on his nemesis, Stephen Firth ... Battle of the big billers ... Mounting claims against hero of the overcharged ... Stinger stung
Keddies, Overcharging, Stephen Firth Tulkinghorn • Wednesday, August 15, 2012 In another world it might be fraud to charge for something you know is not owing ... For lawyers overcharging morphs into acceptable professional conduct ... For non-lawyers "overcharging" results in jail time ... Tulkinghorn explains
Around The Firms • Sunday, May 27, 2012 Another case of Keddies overcharging - this time by $150,000 ... Keddies' case collapses in Court of Appeal ... Indemnity costs at trial and on appeal ... Flailing about as costs and damages mount in ongoing breach of contract saga ... Splitski at Brydens
Sir Terence O'Rort • Thursday, March 29, 2012 Lawyers fail to comply with requirements for speedy, efficient proceedings ... Possible costs penalties ... Reference to Queensland Law Society and Bar 'n' Grill ... Reeves J unloads both barrells in Federal Court ... Sir Terence O'Rort reports
Civil law, David Bennett, Judges, Legal fees, Overcharging Hellfire Club • Wednesday, March 28, 2012 Round-up of latest findings from the Bureau de Spank in Western Australia and Victoria ... All the usual catastrophes ... Fibbing, failure to disclose, false evidence, overcharging, trust account fiddles ... Pierce Hartigan reports
Tulkinghorn • Thursday, March 15, 2012 Judges from the ranks of successful lawyers ... Poachers are warned not to turn gamekeepers ... Wolves in sheeps' clothing ... The usual (unusual) rule ... Judges propping-up the fees grab ... What lawyer said: "Frankly, the pursuit of money by the legal profession came to disgust me"? ... Tulkinghorn probes
Civil law, David Bennett, Judges, Legal fees, Overcharging Around The Firms • Monday, February 27, 2012 Keddies, again … Self-regulation protects the independence of the legal profession and allows the most flagrant breaches of ethical standards to be regarded as acceptable … Tracing the Tariq overcharging case and how all misconduct complaints found their way to the dust bin … Charging another three-quarters of the amount on top of what is acceptable is not gross overcharging ... Victim presses for inquiry into OLSC
Keddies, Mohammed Tariq, Overcharging, Philip Scroope, Steve Mark Bar Talk • Wednesday, February 1, 2012 Two Sydney barristers required to reveal their fees in overcharging case against Keddies … Allegations of multiple billing for the same work … Excessive charges and over-servicing
David Campbell, Keddies, Overcharging, Tim Meakes Hellfire Club • Friday, December 23, 2011 Solicitor for Voyager victims loses his ticket ... Double billing and lack of candour means that David Forster is not a fit and proper type ... Nearly $1.5 million in receivership and LSB costs ... No joy from the fidelity fund
Around The Firms • Tuesday, December 6, 2011 Contempt of court … Intrusion into overcharging proceedings … Prime facie breach of undertakings and injunctions … Raising fingers of scorn at Supreme Court ... Keddies Three expected to be cross-examined by Stitt QC
Around The Firms • Wednesday, November 23, 2011 Mystery person offering settlements for Stephen Firth's clients to withdraw their overcharging cases against Keddies ... Injunction sought ... Former Keddies' partners give undertakings pending further hearing
Keddies, Overcharging, Slater & Gordon Around The Firms • Wednesday, February 23, 2011 Serious new allegations emerged from a defamation case against Russell Keddie, Tony Barakat and Scott Roulstone ... Court of Appeal did not allow trial to accommodate malice claims within time frame ... Buying off conduct complaints underscores failure of the disciplinary system
Overcharging, professional conduct