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…
Report Day 1: Essendon Football Club & Hird v ASADA
Intrepid lawyer and legal reporter, Kate Houghton, attended Court today and prepared a report of the first day of the trial into whether the Australian Sports…
Reading the Tea Leaves: Essendon v ASADA Opening Submissions
This post analyses the oral opening submissions from Day 1 of the trial between Essendon Football Club, James Hird and the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA),…
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…
Essendon supplements saga: Likely battlegrounds at 27 June Federal Court directions hearing
On 13 June 2014, professional Australian Rules team Essendon Football Club and its coach, James Hird, commenced proceedings against the CEO of the Australian Sports Anti-Doping…
‘Reading between the lines’ of Essendon’s court application against ASADA
BigFooty.com requested that I write a piece for their home page, so I decided to apply a bit of ‘in-house knowledge’ to a review of the Essendon…
The Social Litigator 