From a review of criminal cases, AFL Tribunal suited Gaff best
When Andrew Gaff punched Andrew Bradshaw off the ball during a West Coast / Fremantle Derby in the Australian Football League last week, the first thing…
Six Lessons from the Rebel Wilson Court of Appeal decision
In September 2017, after Rebel Wilson had won ‘monster’ damages in her defamation case in Victoria (in Australian terms anyway), I posted on this blog my…
Cory Bernardi’s #AC100: infuriating for ‘nominated’ musicians, but unlawful?
Many of us consider ourselves Aussie rock stars, on the inside anyway. Even if our work was not co-opted by Cory Bernardi for his #AC100 list,…
‘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…
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…
Did Legal Aid overstep the mark by selling landlord decision as a victory for low-income tenants?
This is a story about the restoration of dignity for one person. However, for Legal Aid to sell this outcome as a happy ending for everyone in…
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…
Zut Alors!* Which team sponsor of the 2016 Tour de France deserves a podium finish and which – ahem – does not?
* Disappointingly, no one actually says Zut Alors! in France. So much for that school text book! There are 22 teams in the Tour de France, a…
Assessing brand damage to the Australian Catholic Church: What research tells us
“Sorry about the jargon, but if Catholicism really were a brand, ad agencies wouldn’t be fighting for the account right now” – Damian Thompson, The Telegraph…
The Social Litigator 