Colin Carruthers, QC "what Sir Edmund said is .. conjecture, hearsay, wrong in fact and entitled to no weight whatsoever".
Sir Ted Thomas “Either you have been bullshitting me or Alan has been bullshitting you. ."
Last month saw the enforced retirement of a Judge from the Grand Court of the Caymans, following a 47 page opinion from the Privy Council. Priya Levers, a Sri Lankan who married a Jamaican and practiced for 27 years, was deemed to have fallen short of the standards set by the Bangalore principles of Judicial [...]
It’s tough being a lawyer at the best of times – well, kind of – but being a lawyer in Iran is beyond even being a South Auckland boot-banger. Take women’s rights activist Shiva Ahari, (pictured) for instance, who now faces the highly sophisticated threat of being stoned to death for dodgy charges levelled against [...]
What sort of spoil sport is Mr Justice Morgan, anyway? The Beeb lost its case in keeping the Top Gear stunt driver’s identity secret. The Stig was revealed as Ben Collins, 35, Top Gear’s incognito racing driver for the past seven years and he’s written an autobiography that the BBC tried to prevent being published, [...]
The death of the hourly fee may be delayed, it would seem. The recently published “Legal Department Benchmarking Report” indicates that alternative fee arrangements are less common in Australia and New Zealand than many might have thought, although the report indicated the trend towards AFAs was growing. However the US Supreme Court ruled last month [...]
Let battle commence. The application by Justice Bill Wilson for judicial review of the decision by the Judicial Conduct Commissioner Sir David Gascoigne to appoint a panel to consider his removal from office is obviously historic, reports John Bowie in the NBR “Briefcase” column. It has also drawn accusation and counter-accusation. It’s a first that [...]
Bell Gully are sending two of their partners to Jenny Morel’s MORGO techo shindig in Wairakei,being David Flacks and Dean Oppenhuis who will lecture the inventor-entrepreneurs on “Going Global”. Think trees-to-Nokia and you’ll get the picture.
They don’t pay much in jail, but lawyer Scott Rothstein, the former South Florida lawyer serving 50 years in prison for a US$1.2-billion Ponzi scheme, was ordered by a judge to pay his victims US$363-million. So maybe times have changed? The Florida court imposed the order on Rothstein, 48, at a hearing where prosecutors said they [...]
Apart from Justice Wilson, Alan Galbraith draws attention to himself by virtue of his own handling of the extensive business relationship he had with Justice Wilson. Putting aside the Judge’s conflict and the obligations upon him to disclose it, it is less clear how far Galbraith had gone to do the same thing. It may [...]
Legal eminence grise Sir Edmund “Ted” Thomas has been caught with his spam-guard down – and his highbrow eloquence. Writing to Jim Farmer, doyen of barristers, asking whether Jim had been “bullshitting” Ted is a bit like Bill (Wilson) asking Colin (Carruthers) about Alan’s (Galbraith) and his side deals. Or about “lowlife” Vince Siemer. Or [...]
We joke sometimes, through gritted teeth, about the number of lawyers in America, but just hang on to your horses on that one. In the World Cup of lawyers-to-citizens, New Zealand comes in third, right behind Brazil and the US. The Law Society had an major inflow of in the second half of last month [...]
As the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department continues its domestic violence investigation of Mel Gibson, the Mad Mel’s lawyer is reportedly set to meet with police on the matter. According to RadarOnline.com, the site that premiered the actor’s ability to cuss like no other, the meeting is slated to happen next week. “The plan is [...]
Securities law has been having bad hair days for as long as most of us can remember. Blowing all over the place, no one there to do the tidying up, it seemed, and all sorts of new-fangled product to get things under control. And now we have a spanking new discussion document that’s landed on [...]
So who did Mrs Tiger get to get Tiger’s One Billion Dollar settlement? Well, try an 82 year old LA lawyer called Sorrell Trope. Trope who boasts of being “one of the pre-eminent family law attorneys in the United States”, with experience in handling big-money, big-name cases. Past celebrity clients have included Cary Grant, Britney [...]
Much comment arrived about last week’s comments regarding the mothering of the Hubbards. I wondered what exactly does having Allan and Jean Hubbard placed in statutory management mean? Are there a couple of chaps in fluro jackets standing beside the dialysis machine making sure neither of them try and get to the office? There’s something [...]
