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 [...]
The WSJ has reported that some of the Big Apple’s biggest chefs are feeling the heat all the way from the kitchen to the courthouse. The lawyers are suing famous restaurants for violating wage laws for their small-time workers—not giving them their fair share of tip money, not paying them overtime properly, things like that. [...]
Okay, sleeplessness might be seen as an occupational hazard for lawyers but this article indicated there are a few things lawyers can do to avoid those sleepless nights fretting over unbilled time, uncollected fees, the troublesome woman who wants custody of kids she abandoned all those years ago . . and just about everything else. [...]
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, [...]
So how did a button-down commercial firm like McGuireWoods get to act on the TW divorce? Yesterday AboveTheLaw covered the divorce of golf sensation Tiger Woods and his stunningly beautiful wife, former model Elin Nordegren. ATL noted that Nordegren was represented by McGuireWoods. Although McGuireWoods is a top firm, especially in its home state of [...]
He’s dealt with whales. He’s dealt with our boozed kids. He’s grappled with privacy problems. He’s dealt with every constitutional issue known, or at least written about them. He’s partnered with Mai Chen. He’s lectured, hectored in some cases, during his days in the academe. He even briefly lead the country. And so how long [...]
Serving judicial time in the tropics has always sounded highly appealing and reading this weekend about Tom Weston, the Cook Islands Chief Justice, querying where else in the world you could look out your office window and see hump back whales, prompted me to think of another judge with an exotic outlook, but from his [...]
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 [...]
It’s always interesting to read a Justice Rhys Harrison judgment, if only for their clarity. Indeed, always for their clarity. This week came the release of another judgment in the Stephen Versalko saga, he being the fraudulent ASB banker who acted as a generous-to-a -major-fault patron to a Pelican Club prostitute who we shall call [...]
Minters issued a statement recently saying they were developing their legal outsourcing work. The ‘O’ word is a dirty one in most quarters, carrying with it thoughts of Pilipino or Indian phone jockeys giving us the address for tellytube instead of Telecom. Most of the large firms have worked for the major US and UK [...]
She was beautiful. She was confident. She was fed up with her malfunctioning laptop. But otherwise, she insisted, everything was “cool”. Anna Chapman came from Russia not with love, the FBI believes, but with dastardly intent to schmooze. She claimed to have a master’s degree in economics, an English husband and an online property business. [...]
John Bowie – It’s an odd thing, but ‘diving’up here in the Cook Islands (or ‘lagoon-floating’ as I prefer to call it) which is analogous to the law with it’s oily-smooth surface, just as if BP were somewhere in the vicinity, and yet full of movement, colour, life-and-death struggles beneath. As we know, sunny islands [...]
