Keddies stuck in the stalls

Updated on Friday, February 10, 2012 by Justinian

Judge decides no reasonable person could think he was prejudiced against former Keddies' partners ... Stay also refused ... Contempt hearing against Keddies boys now set for February 16 ... Brigit Morris reporting from the NSW Supremes 

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Barristers required to divulge fees for Hong Kong "sittings"

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 

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News from the broom cupboard

Shake-out of former Keddies' partners at Slater & Gordon … ACT bar breaches suppression order 

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A view from the East

In Hong Kong Percy Lo-Kit Chan watches on television the melee outside the Lobby restaurant on Australia Day and reflects on what happened when three students got close to the Vice Premier of the PRC ... Civil discourse also at a low ebb in the HKSAR 

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Biography underway for lion of the bar

Tom Hughes to be profiled in detail and at length in new book by Canberra historian ... Keddies still ducking and weaving - application for judge to step aside ... Barristers ordered to reveal their billing in Hong Kong PI cases ... Smallbone boned by bar 'n' grill ... Ashton v Pratt - Madison flirts with an appeal 

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Rayney daze in Perth

Pillsbury Flom in Australia for his hols, where he picks up the latest on the Lloyd Rayney case, gives his thoughts about Julia Gillard and her forbearance of radio ranters and her hypocrisy on gay marriage ... Plus, the Viagra patent case 

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All fit and proper at LawCover

Leading personal injury solicitor appointed to board of NSW LawCover ... Untested allegations of professional misconduct hang in the air ... APRA's fit and proper guidelines for directors of insurance companies ... Finding of "serious neglect" ... Implications for policyholders 

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Kung Hei Fat Choy

Year of the Dragon, a year of great charges ... Percy Chan files from Hong Kong ... Life in the SAR: great wealth alongside striking poverty ... Lower bunks at a premium ... Mainlanders reducing the locals to second class citizens ... Pollution ... Traffic ... Land prices ... Ai WeiWei and taxes ... FILTH 

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The Circumlocution Office

"Reform" of legal fees - four centuries of chicanery ... Tulkinghorn awards prizes for "reforms" that increase legal costs ... Jacking-up revenue by replacing "necessary or proper" costs with "fair and reasonable" costs ... Looks like the Circumlocution Office has got hold of the Marfording Report 

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Lawyers in the witness box

New national solicitors' conduct rules dilute traditional approach to lawyers giving evidence in court for their clients ... Rules that will lead solicitors down the garden path ... Ethical eclipse ... From Neil Watt at the ethics desk 

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Denis Thatcher's Kilmuir moment

Leverhulme on The Iron Lady ... Tales from the Court of Queen Margaret ... The Kilmuir Rules ... Sentencing of race killers ... Plymouth judge makes a prat of himself, with no help from Fowler ... London Calling 

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Happy birthday Gitmo

Milestones and millstones ... Guantánamo's tenth birthday, as Bill of Rights turns 220 ... National Defence Authorisation Act allows for exciting possibilities - including military detention of US civilians ... The new Reichstag Fire Decree ... Latest from US Supremes ... Habeas - British courts step-in where DC Circuit fears to tread

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Slater & Gordon bastes itself in Turner Freeman victory

Slater & Gordon accused of trying to snitch commercial benefit from Turner Freeman's High Court victory in asbestos case ... Angry rebuke ... All a terrible misunderstanding 

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Voyager victims fleeced by pirate

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 

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The Republican dream

Congressional fat cats ... Corporate crime and financial defalcation ... Constitutional violations ... Gridlock on judicial and ambassadorial nominations ... Roger Fitch surveys the Washington landscape 

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Horseplay won't bugger-up the football dollars

Jerry Sandusky, the Penn State football coach up on child sex charges, has a very helpful lawyer with a sparkling media strategy ... Trial will be a needless formality ... Stand-by for extensively legalled media portraits of the Iron Ore Queen ... Pillsbury Flom files 

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He kept off the front page

While no Lionel Murphy, Robert McClelland will be remembered as a decent, reforming attorney general ... His stature will grow with the years ... Marcus Priest, who was McClelland's senior policy advisor, dictated this piece to Polly Peck in Canberra 

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Litigation prophylaxis

William Collins on Victoria's vexatious litigants ... Goldie Collins and Constance Bienvenu look like being outshone by Hoddle Street killer Julian Knight, a resident of Port Phillip Prison ... Persistent resort to civil justice ... Tireless struggle against the state 

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Keddies must be kidding

New law year blasts off with contempt trial of three Keddies' partners … Cheque signed by Roulstone prime facie a breach of court order

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The mad dash to mediocrity

The new conduct rules for solicitors appear to be more notional than national ... Large Law Firm Group sets the tone ... It's all about what we can get away with ... The "right thing to do" went missing in action  ... Neil Watt, who sat on the LCA's ethics committee, experienced a dashing of expectations 

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