Posts from the ‘Observations’ category

Oil and water can mix: 8 hints to help lawyers help clients with media strategy

Years ago, I was representing a high net worth person in a pitched legal battle that had found its way to the doorstep of Australia’s highest…

Quiz: Let’s see how much you really know about the FIFA scandal

So you have read all the media stories and marveled at the corruption scandal engulfing FIFA. So intrigued, you might even have braved the 164 pages…

Essendon supplements saga: Is it up, up and away to Switzerland?

Now there’s a lot more things to football  That really meets the eye  There are days when you could give it up  There are days when…

#Deflategate: A tale of team sport, circumstantial evidence and tough findings

We know Tom Brady as the person who looks terrific in a tuxedo at an A-List event with his wife, fashion model superstar Gisele Bündchen. We…

How would YOU approach a WADA appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport?

If you thought Fifty Shades of Grey flew off the shelves quickly, wait until you see The Code of the Court of Arbitration for Sport: Commentary,…

Stephen Dank did some things, not others, says AFL Tribunal

In this most partisan of cases, sometimes it is all in the headline. And so it proved late on Friday, 17 April 2015, after the AFL…

For confused Dallas Buyers Club downloaders, New Zealand might show the way

If you downloaded Dallas Buyers Club in 2014 then you might have been left feeling frustrated and confused by the many contradictory media reports floating around…

Greyhound racing’s ‘Awesome Project’: Australia’s answer to ‘McGruff the Crime Dog’?

Back in 1980, a dog in a rumpled trench coat said, “You don’t know me yet. But you will.” Since then, McGruff the Crime Dog, a…

Knowledge is power: How to navigate the legalities of a plane crash aftermath

Recent publicity over flight disasters concerning Malaysia Airlines, Air Asia and Germanwings (the low cost carrier of the Lufthanser Group) can cause our minds to dwell…