Tulkinghorn
October 17,
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The lawyer as whistleblowing confidant | |
Law firms offer clients the best available cone of silence. It’s expensive, but the service also blocks out sight and smell. It’s even fireproof ... more |
Tulkinghorn
September 10,
2008 ![]() |
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Bugger the presumption of innocence, what about the fees? | |
When lawyers “follow the fees” where does that lead our legal system? ... Tulkinghorn asks, should privately funded defence lawyers be required to tell victims of crime where the defence legal fees are coming from, and how much they are? ... more |
Tulkinghorn
August 15,
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Why the punter should never trust a trust account | |
Could you lend me your wallet for a while? The trust account is both a sacred cow and a milch cow. Anyone who thinks trust accounts should be trusted probably believes, along with Homer Simpson, that wallet inspectors also exist ... more |
Tulkinghorn
July 13,
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The cab rank rule is rank all right | |
Providing cover for the “dirty” cases … Tulkinghorn teases apart the fiction of one of the bar’s prized ethical flourishes – the “cab rank” rule. Isn’t it about time it was scrapped? ... more |
Tulkinghorn
June 16,
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Victoria's civil justice review - same old stuff | |
Trust Tulkinghorn not to be enthusiastic about Dr Cashman’s review of civil justice in Victoria. The report draws extensively on the UK Woolf “reforms” ... and what good have they produced? ... more |
Tulkinghorn
May 16,
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Even lawyers have to eat ... Not necessarily, replied the Cardinal | |
Canadian jurist urges judges to take control of cases away from lawyers … Maximising business in the criminal courts begs the question, “where do we draw the line on freeing people we know to be guilty”? ... more |
Tulkinghorn
April 12,
2008 ![]() |
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Smelly fees ... Pongy ethics | |
Money from the proceeds of crime sets the criminal defence gravy train rolling ... more |
Tulkinghorn
March 12,
2008 ![]() |
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What do lawyers actually do? | |
“Lawyers and lawyering” is defined to mean whatever you want it to mean. In fact, most of the profession isn’t practising law at all. It doesn’t matter, as long as lawyers have a monopoly on whatever it is they do ... more |
Tulkinghorn
February 4,
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How can we rescue the rich if we don't have sentencing discretion? | |
A Deal or No Deal system of sentencing criminals would be fairer than the present arrangement, where offenders simply pay to get the best deal ... more |