The Law Weighs In: Closing Submissions in Essendon v ASADA trial
Closing submissions are the last opportunity for the parties to persuade the judge that their case should prevail. The stakes have risen, the veneer of gentility…
Report Day 3: Essendon Football Club & Hird v ASADA
Kate Houghton, lawyer and legal reporter, reports in this post on the cross-examination of remaining witnesses on the final day of trial. Closing submissions will be the…
Report Day 2: Essendon Football Club & Hird v ASADA
Lawyer and legal reporter Kate Houghton has prepared a report of Day 2 of the trial into whether the Australian Sports Anti Doping Authority (ASADA) acted…
Losing ground? How the evidence fared in Essendon v ASADA litigation
This post analyses the effect of cross-examination on the parties’ evidence in Day 2 of the Federal Court of Australia into the legality of the Australian…
Essendon v ASADA: The rule of law and role of legal fairness
At the heart of claims by Essendon Football Club and James Hird against the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA) is a perceived lack of procedural fairness.…
Essendon and Hird Statements of Claim: One voice or a loose alliance?
Here we have a tale of two documents. Each of them is called a Statement of Claim. Each of them is filed on behalf of an…
The winners and losers from Federal Court directions hearing: Essendon supplements saga
I posted my predictions about the big ticket items in the litigation between Essendon, James Hird and ASADA and how they would be dealt with. How…
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