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- Apostille Certificates...what are these creatures???!!!
- 6 Jun 2007
- Check this web site for a full explanation
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- Require the services of a Court Lawyer?
- 6 Jun 2007
- Here is a website which lists Court Lawyers in all Australian States and Territories.
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- Require the services of a Notary Public ?
- 6 Jun 2007
- If you are in need of a Notary Public, here is a excellent website where you might locate a Notary near where you live or work....
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- Fugitive mother's lawyer pushes for joint custody deal
- 15 Jan 2007
- A LEBANESE lawyer acting for fugitive Canadian mother Melissa Hawach says he is trying to broker a legal deal with her Australian former husband, Joseph Hawach, which would give the estranged couple joint custody of their two daughters.
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- To have or not to have
- 8 Jan 2007
- Court programs for referring cases to mediation have expanded in the Philippines since first introduced as a pilot project in trial courts in 2001. After initial successes, court-annexed mediation was institutionalized in 2002 in the trial courts, with pre-trial mediation referrals in all civil cases. The Supreme Court and the Philippine Judicial Academy institutionalized mediation in the court of appeals in 2002 as well. The mediation success rate from 2002-2006 at the trial level has been 71%. New issues arise as programs mature, with controversy at a recent National Conference on Court-Annexed Mediation over the desirability of lawyers being present in mediation sessions.
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- NZ Muslim tagged flight risk over toilet use
- 8 Jan 2007
- The New Zealand Human Rights Commission illustrated the success of its dispute resolution program – which since 2002 has focused on mediation – by detailing a number of cases, one of which resolved claims against an airline by a Muslim religious leader who was removed from a plane as a security risk for spending ten minutes in the toilet in ritual ablutions before take off.
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- Judge tells lawyers to get a life
- 17 Nov 2006
- THE rudeness, aggression and demands of senior lawyers are leading too many young lawyers to burn out and leave the profession disillusioned, a Supreme Court judge has warned.
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- Dublin considers mediation for neighborhood disputes
- 19 Oct 2006
- DUBLIN - A dispute over limited parking space -- resolved by neighbors after the city intervened -- has the City Council considering whether Dublin should provide some early mediation for neighbors before their issues come to the council.
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- Barrister says the unspoken on judges
- 25 Sep 2006
- Some Australian judges should be condemned as workplace bullies when they needlessly humiliate lawyers as they "play to the gallery", says the Sydney barrister Jeff Phillips, SC.
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- Last bastion of the incompetent barrister
- 25 Sep 2006
- AUSTRALIAN barristers now have a unique place among the leading common law countries: they are shielded from the consequences of their negligence.
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- 'Unusual' mediation resuming in supermarket dispute
- 5 Sep 2006
- It is hoped an "unusual step" taken by a New Zealand employment court judge yesterday will help find resolution to the stand-off between supermarket giant Progressive Enterprises and nearly 600 distribution workers.
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- It's too much, C7 judge laments
- 5 Sep 2006
- A SENIOR Federal Court judge has challenged the boards of the media and telecommunications companies in the long-running C7 suit to prevent his task becoming unmanageable and to rein in the costs of likely appeals.
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- Are you out there?
- 17 Aug 2006
- VIRTUAL ASSISTANTS COULD BE THE BEST THING TO HIT COST-CONSCIOUS, TIME-PRESSED LAWYERS, MEDIATORS, SINCE, WELL, REAL ASSISTANTS
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- Important ADR English case law and practice advice
- 6 Aug 2006
- Litigation lawyers should take note, therefore, that the preference of the judiciary towards “mediation before litigation” continues. The risk of a successful litigant not obtaining his costs at trial if he refuses mediation overtures increases with each new step in the Court of Appeal.
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- One size to fit all cultures
- 28 Jul 2006
- The legal profession has slammed the Government’s plan to prevent cultural background evidence from being used in sentencing, labelling it poorly conceived and ‘pure politics.
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- Delhi HC Starts Mediation And Conciliation Centre
- 27 Jul 2006
- The Delhi High Court today formally started a mediation and conciliation centre on its premises.
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- Emerging Med-Mal Strategy: 'I'm Sorry'
- 24 Jul 2006
- Doctors' apologies for medical mistakes may not be a cure-all for litigation, but explaining unforeseen outcomes and making early settlement offers have proven effective, say lawyers who have participated in the process in the last decade.
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- Banks force firms to fight for work and fees
- 20 Jul 2006
- CLIENTS HAVE reached boiling point in relation to cost increases and quality of work and are now taking action to ensure they are getting value for money.
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- London claiming, and keeping Australian lawyers
- 20 Jul 2006
- AS AUSTRALIAN law firms have come to accept the likelihood of losing their best and brightest talent to the UK for a couple of years, and made positive moves to encourage their return to the fold, the bar has been raised.
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- Ruddock announces new federal magistrates
- 1 Jul 2006
-
News July 1, 2006
Ruddock announces new federal magistrates
AUSTRALIA’S FIRST legal officer has announced the appointments of four new federal magistrates.
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- Same crime, same time’: ALRC calls for consistency in sentencing
- 1 Jul 2006
- Australia ’s system for sentencing federal offenders should be overhauled to provide greater consistency, fairness and clarity, according to a major report by the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) brought in front of the federal Parliament.
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- Judiciary called on to protect rights
- 1 Jul 2006
- THE JUDICIARY is needed more than ever to stand up for individual rights in the face of public opinion, the Chief Justice of the Australian Capital Territory Supreme Court argued last week
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- Judge convicted of using penis pump in court
- 30 Jun 2006
- A former US judge has been convicted of exposing himself by using a sexual device while he presided over court cases.
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- Aussie scientists crack DNA mystery
- 30 Jun 2006
- Australian scientists say they've solved one of the DNA mysteries surrounding the way in which cells divide and replicate themselves.
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- Meat cleaver attack in Sydney unit
- 29 Jun 2006
- A man allegedly chopped into his flatmate's hand with a meat cleaver after an booze-fuelled argument turned violent in Sydney's south yesterday, police say.
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- Drunk surgeon naked on letterbox
- 29 Jun 2006
- The children's doctor was sitting naked on an eastern suburbs letterbox masturbating, when the two women spotted him.
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- Toothless Tony's no ordinary detective
- 29 Jun 2006
- Four days after losing 10 teeth and having his jaw fractured in an attack, Detective Acting Sergeant Tony Elkins, 44, is back at work.
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