A report into the collapse of Lehman Brothers criticises senior executives and auditor Ernst & Young for serious lapses that led to the firm’s collapse. The report says Lehman was insolvent for weeks before it went bankrupt, sparking a global financial meltdown. It accuses management of “actionable balance sheet manipulation” and using accounting tricks to [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Economics, Funnies, Law, Politics
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Tagged accountancy, Dick Fuld, Ernst & Young, finance, financial crisis, Lehman Brothers, Linklaters, Repo 105
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February 25, 2010 – 4:12 am
An independent inquiry found today that there were “shocking” systematic failures of hospital care in Mid Staffordshire that left patients routinely neglected, humiliated and in pain as the trust focused on cutting costs and hitting government targets. Today’s report from the inquiry led by Robert Francis QC, which was commissioned by the health secretary, Andy [...]
February 15, 2010 – 1:30 pm
Via Larvatus Prodeo, I became aware of KRudd’s latest gem – a PhD is an “excuse for not having kids”. (What is it with the political leaders in our country at the moment?) Nina Funnell, a thirty something researcher, attended a function where Kevin Rudd spoke on an ageing population. Her story follows: I was [...]
February 12, 2010 – 1:10 pm
I confess that I’ve never really held much brief for celebrity politicians. Of course, I try to give everyone the benefit of the doubt, so I try to cast my prejudice aside. But I can’t help thinking that if you’re a performer or an actor or a musician, you might not have had much experience [...]
December 15, 2009 – 8:40 pm
Here at Skepticlawyer we’re shocked to see that the wowsers have apparently won the battle over compulsory internet censorship. The Age reports: The Federal Government has announced it will proceed with controversial plans to censor the internet after Government-commissioned trials found filtering a blacklist of banned sites was accurate and would not slow down the [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Also posted in Blogging, Free Speech, Human/Civil rights, Internet, Law, Media, Personal liberty, Politics, Society
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Tagged freedom of speech, ISP filtering, Senator Conroy
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December 7, 2009 – 9:46 am
I went to an interesting seminar the other day on breach of confidence law. The seminar included a number of speakers and spanned Australian, UK and US law on the subject, as well as a historical consideration of the piecemeal manner in which breach of confidence law developed. Apparently breach of confidence was a relative [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Also posted in Academia, Equity, Free Speech, Intellectual property, Law, Media, Privacy
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Tagged breach of confidence, breach of privacy, European Convention on Human Rights, giller v procopets, max mosely
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November 24, 2009 – 3:10 am
Disability sucks. I just thought you should know that. It’s sometimes painful, always inconvenient and inclined to bite gaping holes out of your self esteem. Most people are pretty reliable: they get up in the morning, go to work or school during the week and kick back on the weekends doing activities they enjoy once [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Economics, Personal, Politics, Society
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Tagged david cameron, disability, discrimination, ESA, general election 2010, incapacity benefit, Media, UK conservative party, UK politics, welfare
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November 16, 2009 – 6:16 am
Gordon Brown is to apologise for the UK’s role in sending thousands of its children to former colonies in the 20th century, the BBC has learned. Under the Child Migrants Programme – which ended just 40 years ago – poor children were sent to a “better life” in Australia, Canada and elsewhere. But many were [...]
November 13, 2009 – 6:32 am
I did a post at the beginning of the year on the liability of publicans to restrain drunk patrons from driving home. To recap briefly: a drunken patron (Mr Scott) died after his motorcycle crashed, and his wife sued the licensee for failing to restrain him. A majority of the Full Court of the Supreme [...]
November 9, 2009 – 8:05 pm
I was fascinated to see that the first case under the new s 4AA of the Family Law Act 1975 (Cth) has been settled out of court. According to the recent article in the Herald Sun: A cheating husband has paid his former lover more than $100,000 under Australia’s new “mistress laws”. In the first [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Also posted in Children, Economics, Equity, Law, Marriage, Personal liberty
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Tagged Cass Sunstein, concubine, contracts, family law, mistress, polygamy, polygyny, Richard Thaler
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