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Making bullies pay

March 10, 2010 – 10:56 am

In an interesting case, the Victorian Supreme Court has decided a victim of bullying may get compensation for threats to kill made to her by a bully when she was eight years old. The compensation is under the Victims of Crime Assistance Act 1996 (Vic) (‘VCAA‘). Among other things, when they were both eight years [...]

By Legal Eagle | Also posted in Children, Economics | Tagged , , , , | Comments (9)

Mummies and Daddies

March 8, 2010 – 11:47 am

I was interested to read today that a woman has failed in her legal bid to stop her former partner from encouraging their six-year-old daughter to call his new partner “Mummy D”. Unfortunately the judgment doesn’t seem to be available online yet.
[The mother] said encouraging the term of endearment was ”an incendiary action” by her [...]

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Ari and Mohammed are now friends

March 7, 2010 – 4:04 am

The Israeli military cancelled a planned raid on a Palestinian village after one of its soldiers posted details of the operation on Facebook.
The unnamed soldier revealed the time and place of the raid and the name of his unit on the social networking site. He said on his status update that his unit planned a [...]

By DeusExMacintosh | Also posted in Fark!, Free Speech, Funnies, Internet, Middle east, Politics, Religion | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (12)

A Welcome to Lawyers’ Weekly readers

March 4, 2010 – 5:03 am

Some of the people who write this blog are actually organised. I, alas, am not one of them.
Unbeknown to me, this blog was prominently featured in this week’s issue of leading trade magazine Lawyers’ Weekly. The article discusses several sites across Ozblawgistan, including Stephen Warne’s professional negligence blog (you’ll notice he’s featured on LE’s blogroll) [...]

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Contemptuous spam

March 3, 2010 – 10:18 am

Believe it or not, it’s now possible to commit contempt of court by soliciting your supporters to send hundreds of e-mails to the judge.
The case arose when a salesman, Kevin Trudeau, who apparently sells weight loss cures via infomercials on US TV was taken to court by the US Federal Trade Commission for deceptive advertising. [...]

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Privacy and WAGS

March 2, 2010 – 7:49 pm

I have to say that I never really understood where the acronym WAG came from – I had to look it up on Wikipedia, and I found that it originated as a descriptor of the Wives And Girlfriends of the 2006 English World Cup soccer club. Anyway, I’ve noted that our press has started referring [...]

By Legal Eagle | Also posted in Feminism, Privacy | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (47)

The Bart Simpson School of International Relations

February 18, 2010 – 2:53 am

Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has said there is no proof the Mossad spy agency carried out the killing of a Hamas commander in Dubai. But he did not fully deny that Israel carried out the killing, citing its “policy of ambiguity” on such matters.
Dubai believes 11 “agents with European passports” killed Mahmoud al-Mabhouh.
Seven foreign-born [...]

By DeusExMacintosh | Also posted in Funnies, Middle east, Politics, Religion, Terrorism | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (78)

Hanson goes?

February 17, 2010 – 8:14 pm

I was unaware until this morning that I had been quoted at length over at LP on the Pauline Hanson issue: not about her leaving the country, but about Tony Abbott’s shenanigans when he set up ‘Australians for Honest Politics’, which to my mind is a black mark equivalent to his behaviour over RU 486. I [...]

By skepticlawyer | Also posted in England, Politics, The Left | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (6)

Amnesty’s slow burn

February 15, 2010 – 6:30 am

This story has been something of a slow burn over here, but it’s starting to gain a bit of momentum now, to the stage where the implications are actually pretty awful:
A SENIOR official at Amnesty International has accused the charity of putting the human rights of Al-Qaeda terror suspects above those of their victims.
Gita Sahgal, [...]

By skepticlawyer | Also posted in England, Feminism, Free Speech, Human/Civil rights, Middle east | Tagged , , , , | Comments (31)

Further on Intellectual Property

February 13, 2010 – 10:32 am

Regular commenter Lorenzo has written a very thought-provoking post on intellectual property, which I highly recommend. I looked over it and made a few lawyerly comments… for which he has provided me with far too much credit
The take-home (and very thoughtful) piece of analysis? (Lorenzo is a specialist on the role and activities [...]

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