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Seperatists v. Unionists – the ADLS v. NZLS Debate

NBR’s “Briefcase” notes that there were lots of questions and some vociferous opposition has been raised about the proposed amalgamation and the supposed benefits of an “independent” body like the ADLSi existing, but there is some heavyweight support from many lawyers, including more published comments from David Heaney QC, Miriam Dean QC, Matt Casey QC, [...]

Feb 4 2011 | Posted in Featured,Screaming Scandals,The Society | Read More »

“Sieg Heil” Mr Jensen

Cactus Kate has pointed out that Napier lawyerPhilip Jensen, fined $1500 for cultivating and possessing cannabis because of what his lawyer called his cannabis addiction and requested that Jensen be discharged without conviction. She asks whether this was the same Philip Jensen who stood up in a Napier Court room and in defending a Mongrel [...]

Jan 23 2011 | Posted in Legal Exotica,Screaming Headline,Screaming Scandals | Read More »

Marriage Email Scam Scare Solicitors

The New Zealand Law Society is concerned at the latest round of email scams targeting lawyers, according to a report. Here’s the deal: The email asks the lawyer to act in a matrimonial settlement by getting the ‘reluctant’ overseas ex-spouse to pay out. Several emails follow and the spouse agrees to the settlement and sends a cheque [...]

Jan 18 2011 | Posted in Featured,Screaming Scandals | Read More »

Leaky Assange Questioned by British Cops

Julian Assange, the man everyone is loving to hate or just loving is being questioned by British police and expected in court tomorrow to discuss the small problem of a Swedish warrant for extradition relating to alleged sexual assaults in that country, according to The Guardian. At the same time, a legal net is tightening [...]

Dec 6 2010 | Posted in Legal Exotica,London Town,Screaming Scandals | Read More »

Saving The Ducks . . Not The Miners

NBR Reports (Briefcase) – Appointing former Coaster Justice Panckhurst to preside over the Pike River Mine tragedy may have been an obvious choice, but the various enquiries underway will undoubtedly take considerable time to wend their way to their finality. Apart from inevitable questions about safety and infrastructure issues involving New Zealand mining, which seem [...]

Dec 1 2010 | Posted in Screaming Headline,Screaming Scandals | Read More »

Producers Hit Pause on Mel Gibson Movies With Legal Woes

Put the pause on Mel Gibson’s recent movies. The actor’s real-life saga right now is front and center, as the industry and fans wait to see how interrelated domestic abuse and extortion probes, as well as a child-custody case, play out. An investigation into whether Mel Gibson was the victim of an extortion plot is [...]

Nov 24 2010 | Posted in Screaming Headline,Screaming Scandals | Read More »

The Hobbit – Spitting Tax on the Sidelines

Watching the evolving drama from the sidelines must be local investors in the Lord of the Rings films, including the BNZ, Sir Stephen Tindall and the Todd family who all invested into the trilogy and received their tax credits but none of the profits, reports John Bowie in the NBR Briefcase column this week. It’s [...]

Oct 27 2010 | Posted in Featured,Screaming Scandals | Read More »

Telling the SFO To Just FO!

There are at least three disturbing things about this week’s action by the SFO against the NBR in respect of the South Canterbury Finance investigation, reports the NBR Briefcase column. First, it came the very month in which New Zealand was ranked in the top 10 in the world for media freedom. It highlights an [...]

Oct 20 2010 | Posted in Law Heroes,Screaming Scandals | Read More »

The Hobbit – The Muppets

Peter Jackson’s press release shows his dander is well and truly up but while he deals with the muppets in trying to make The Hobbit he knows that dumb-arsed actors manipulated from Aussie, manipulated in turn from LA where they’re seeking to regain their lost-abroad movie business is all part of a game that can [...]

Oct 20 2010 | Posted in Legal Exotica,Screaming Scandals | Read More »

Dressing Down More Lawyers

More lawyers are in line to be banned by the Legal Services Agency for failing to Legal Service Agency standards. This follows last week’s banning of three lawyers in South Auckland, two of whom are under Police investigation as well. All of them face investigation and disciplinary action from the Law Society and Law Society [...]

Oct 14 2010 | Posted in Screaming Headline,Screaming Scandals | Read More »

LSA’s Name and Shame

The Legal Services Agency started its public listing of delisted legal aid lawyers by naming the first three to be so listed on Wednesday. The Auckland lawyers, Iuni Sapolu, Josie Fuimaono-Sapolu and Brett Ravelich are prevented from providing further legal aid services. The moves follow Dame Margaret Bazley’s report on legal aid and the government’s [...]

Oct 14 2010 | Posted in Screaming Headline,Screaming Scandals | Read More »

How ‘The Hobbit’ Has Become ‘The Muppets’

Peter Jackson’s making ‘The Hobbit’, not ‘The Muppets’, but who would know it?

Oct 6 2010 | Posted in Legal Exotica,Screaming Scandals,Screaming Stateside | Read More »

Bashing Poor Middle Aged White Guys – Like Paul Henry

Cactus Kate, the country’s most ascerbic blogger, has rushed to the aid of Paul Henry as a victim of white middle-aged bashing with his latest bon mots. “Henry is now a victim of the white middle-class male bashing machine that exists so prevalently in New Zealand. David Garrett had his turn a few weeks ago, [...]

Oct 6 2010 | Posted in Howling Interviews,Screaming Headline,Screaming Scandals | Read More »

The Justice Wilson “Clusterf**k”

The NBR Briefcase column (John Bowie) reports that Justice Wilson will NEVER face the Judicial Conduct Panel. To quote: “Will Justice Wilson wind up facing the Judicial Conduct Panel? The answer, I strongly suggest, is “No”. This is not because of the High Court decision delivered this week by Justices Wild, Miller and Lang, but [...]

Sep 29 2010 | Posted in Big Lawyers,Featured,Legal Exotica,Screaming Scandals | Read More »

Who Killed The Crewes?

Who would have thought it – all these decades later and after the Bain-weary kiwis had begun to believe that may be the judicial system was kind of cranky and in need of some TLC. And now, Ian Wishart, the trooping crusader picking up where Jim Sprott and Pat Booth left off, blaming the murders [...]

Sep 27 2010 | Posted in Legal Exotica,Screaming Scandals | Read More »