‘Special K’ trade mark dispute grabs headlines, but what about ‘The Big Kokk’?
In 2015, Australian tennis player Thanasi Kokkinakis was riding high. Only 19 years old, he’d made it into the Top 100, and his prodigious talent was…
Is the ‘pain and suffering’ of Fyre Festival attendees legally worth $100 million?
Recently, a small, exclusive group of taut, fit looking young people with large disposable incomes attended the Fyre Festival in the Bahamas. They could have gone…
Now for the Court of Appeal: What we can expect next in O’Brien & Kavanagh cobalt case
On 13 April 2017, Racing Victoria Limited (RVL) announced it had sought leave to appeal to the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Victoria from the…
African braids: When did multi-cultural become ‘cultural appropriation’?
I have worn African braids (the term as advertised) twice now over summer. Once was during a period of career change, and the other when on…
Let there be no mistake: VCAT decision on O’Brien, Kavanagh is not a technical one
For the last two years, trainers Danny O’Brien and Mark Kavanagh have fought charges laid against them by Racing Victoria Limited (RVL) arising from prohibited cobalt…
Grant Hackett media coverage: Ethics a distant second in the fight for eyeballs on screens
Much of the recent media coverage of Grant Hackett’s health issues was neither appropriate nor in the public interest. One can accept that there was news value, at…
Rejection of du Plessis’ ball-tampering appeal is a ripper of a read
This year, the Boxing Day Test between Australia and Pakistan in Melbourne was interrupted by at least 460 rain breaks, hot humidity and, given the weather conditions, an insight for…
Court of Appeal judgment upholding Danny Nikolic exclusion order should matter to all of us
In the last week, Rolling Stone magazine has said about Donald Trump that he has become the mother of all pop-culture villains, a globally despised cross of Dominique Strauss-Kahn,…
Google Translate reveals full reasons why Swiss Federal Tribunal refused Essendon 34 CAS appeal
Studying Classics many years ago, I had a romantic desire to read Homer in the original Ancient Greek. This enthusiasm lasted for one year and…
The (hypothetical) diary George Brandis did not want you to see, and why
The battle lines were drawn some time ago between Commonwealth Attorney-General (George Brandis) and former Attorney-General (Mark Dreyfus) about the ambit of the Freedom of Information Act…
The Social Litigator 