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…
A question of proof: might an ASADA appeal have legs?
On 31 March 2015 the AFL Anti-Doping Tribunal unanimously decided it was not comfortably satisfied that 34 Essendon Football Club players had committed an Anti-Doping Rule…
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…
UPDATED: Nature of injunction might explain why Giedo van der Garde dropped Sauber attack
On the eve of the 2015 Formula 1 season in Melbourne, the Twitter feed of the Supreme Court of Victoria was enlivened with news of a…
Foiled again: Greyhound Racing Victoria shows it means business, loses injunction
Greyhound Racing Victoria (GRV) likely breathed a big sigh of relief on 28 February 2015. That was when Awesome Project came second in Heat 8 at…
It is a question of proof: Greyhound Racing Victoria lift on suspensions explained
“Shut the whole greyhound racing industry down”, say some. For others: “It’s a small aberrant group doing this, but not us”. These are just some of…
Reading between the lines? How live baiting is treated in greyhound racing rules
“It’s widely known that if you give a dog a live animal to kill, on occasion I’ve heard of cats being used – this makes the…
Four Corners greyhound racing scandal: The court of opinion is not a court of law
I never believed the contemptuous description of greyhounds as ‘dish lickers’. Greyhounds are beautiful animals, their noble history explained in this Animals Australia post. In any…
Calculating costs: James Hird & ASADA litigation
A penny for your thoughts? Well, if those thoughts are an estimate of James Hird’s legal costs in the ASADA litigation, expect those pennies to vary…
8 reasons why James Hird lost his Federal Court Appeal
On 30 January 2015, in a joint judgment of Kenny, Besanko and White JJ, the Full Federal Court dismissed James Hird’s appeal. Mr Hird had appealed…
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