NSW Bar Association has requested Commonwealth and State Govt financial assistance for barristers, including grants: Bar has yet to address inefficiencies, waste within its system, and the matter of Zhu Minshen & Top Group
by Ganesh Sahathevan
NSW Chief Justice Tom Bathurst says he is "still enjoying the job". Wolter Peeters,AFRChief Justice Bathurst told the AFR's Michael Pelly was his "present intention" to serve. Bathrust was reported to have sacrificed earning of some AUD 12 Million by leaving Bar and becoming Chief Justice.
From the NSW Bar Society website:
President Tim Game SC has written to Attorney General Mark Speakman SC and Attorney-General Christian Porter requesting urgent financial assistance.
The letter to AG Speakman includes this paragraph:
3. Extension of business stimulus packages and concessions for sole traders. This could take various forms including: a. making certain classes of barrister (e.g., legal aid practitioners) eligible for grants worth a set percentage of their average monthly profits, over a set period (e.g., the past 12 months);
And similarly the letter to the Christian Porter:
Under the current stimulus package, barristers who are not employers do not have access to the “cash flow boost” administered by the ATO. Many barristers, particularly junior barristers, do not have employees and therefore receive no support under these rules. We request that these rules be amended and that a “cash flow boost” be made available in some form to the self-employed who are not themselves employers. The Association understands that the UK Government has announced that self-employed workers there can apply for a grant worth 80% of their average monthly profits, up to a maximum of £2,500 a month, to help them cope with the financial impact of COVID-19. The Association requests that the Australian Government considers similar measures.
Meanwhile the Bar has not addressed inefficiencies within the system, exemplified by the example below. And then, there is the matter of over-supply about which the NSW Bar has said nothing despite public criticism of this sort:
NSW Chief Justice Tom Bathurst says he is "still enjoying the job". Wolter Peeters,AFRChief Justice Bathurst told the AFR's Michael Pelly was his "present intention" to serve. Bathrust was reported to have sacrificed earning of some AUD 12 Million by leaving Bar and becoming Chief Justice.
From the NSW Bar Society website:
President Tim Game SC has written to Attorney General Mark Speakman SC and Attorney-General Christian Porter requesting urgent financial assistance.
The letter to AG Speakman includes this paragraph:
3. Extension of business stimulus packages and concessions for sole traders. This could take various forms including: a. making certain classes of barrister (e.g., legal aid practitioners) eligible for grants worth a set percentage of their average monthly profits, over a set period (e.g., the past 12 months);
And similarly the letter to the Christian Porter:
Under the current stimulus package, barristers who are not employers do not have access to the “cash flow boost” administered by the ATO. Many barristers, particularly junior barristers, do not have employees and therefore receive no support under these rules. We request that these rules be amended and that a “cash flow boost” be made available in some form to the self-employed who are not themselves employers. The Association understands that the UK Government has announced that self-employed workers there can apply for a grant worth 80% of their average monthly profits, up to a maximum of £2,500 a month, to help them cope with the financial impact of COVID-19. The Association requests that the Australian Government considers similar measures.
Meanwhile the Bar has not addressed inefficiencies within the system, exemplified by the example below. And then, there is the matter of over-supply about which the NSW Bar has said nothing despite public criticism of this sort:
Elvira Naiman, managing director at legal recruitment firm Naiman Clarke Legal, went even further, saying: “I'm surprised that anyone in their right mind would think that an additional law school in NSW is a good idea.”
She added: “There are too many law schools in NSW. There is no question about that.”
The NSW Bar has been presented an opportunity to restructure an industry that has a number of long term inefficiencies. It does not need a bail-out.
TO BE READ WITH
February 27, 2020
by Ganesh Sahathevan
The Australian has reported that One Nation member of the NSW Upper House, Mark Latham, has moved a private members bill to amend the NSW Anti-Discrimination Act. The Act has clearly been abused, and the danger it poses to everyone, including ethnics, is in its process.
While lawyers and judges will tell any who cares to listen that complaints pursuant to the Act can be defended before the courts, what is not said is how the process in itself can harass, bankrupt and silence anyone against whom a complaint has been made.
This writer's favourite example of process in one provided by the Chairman of the NSW Legal Profession Admission Board, who is also the Chief Justice of NSW, Tom Bathurst.
This was not an anti-discrimination or defamation matter but an application for admission to practise law in NSW which failed. The Chief Justice had determined that this writer is among other things a liar, defamer and blackmailer involved in international conspiracies to overthrow governments, and this enquiry was part of his process of investigation. It is nevertheless an example of court process, provided by the Chief Justice and some of the most senior judicial officers in this state.
In a letter sent this writer in October 2019 The Board's then Executive Officer,Louise Pritchard acting under the authority of Chairman Bathurst actually said:
Now, this was a letter from the Chief Justice, so it demanded much careful consideration. After all due consideration and respect was accorded his request the following response was provided:
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One Nation's NSW leader, Mark Latham, is moving to significantly raise the bar for complaints being made to the Anti-Discrimination Board, ...
The Australian has reported that One Nation member of the NSW Upper House, Mark Latham, has moved a private members bill to amend the NSW Anti-Discrimination Act. The Act has clearly been abused, and the danger it poses to everyone, including ethnics, is in its process.
While lawyers and judges will tell any who cares to listen that complaints pursuant to the Act can be defended before the courts, what is not said is how the process in itself can harass, bankrupt and silence anyone against whom a complaint has been made.
This writer's favourite example of process in one provided by the Chairman of the NSW Legal Profession Admission Board, who is also the Chief Justice of NSW, Tom Bathurst.
This was not an anti-discrimination or defamation matter but an application for admission to practise law in NSW which failed. The Chief Justice had determined that this writer is among other things a liar, defamer and blackmailer involved in international conspiracies to overthrow governments, and this enquiry was part of his process of investigation. It is nevertheless an example of court process, provided by the Chief Justice and some of the most senior judicial officers in this state.
In a letter sent this writer in October 2019 The Board's then Executive Officer,Louise Pritchard acting under the authority of Chairman Bathurst actually said:
Now, this was a letter from the Chief Justice, so it demanded much careful consideration. After all due consideration and respect was accorded his request the following response was provided:
The licence number on the character reference is that of the referee, sighted by the authorised witness,Mr (name deleted).
The certified copy of the driver's license (number deleted ) is indeed my own, and provided as I understand the rules of application require.
The Chairman and the Board remained silent for a very long time,and after a number of request for a response to determine if further clarification was needed, the Chairman , via his LPAB Secretariat said:
You have answered the question satisfactorily (paraphrase).
The above illustrates how even this state's highest judicial officer can make demands, no matter how absurd, that add to time and costs. Simply saying that a matter can be appealed before the courts gives the impression that the rule of law is being upheld, when it is not necessarily so.
Litigants in anti-discrimination matters have found themselves in debt simply jumping through the hoops (ask Bernard Gaynor)and it was a defamation judge, Judith Gibson, who warned warned:
Litigants in anti-discrimination matters have found themselves in debt simply jumping through the hoops (ask Bernard Gaynor)and it was a defamation judge, Judith Gibson, who warned warned:
"We can't have enormously expensive litigation driving people to have to sell their homes or go bankrupt.
"That's not a system of law that is going to attract admiration and respect from other countries or large companies wanting to do business in Australia."
"If we don't affect changes, we are going to have a significant loss of faith in the courts as the significant provider of justice, and that is a matter of great concern."
The NSW Parliament has now before it an opportunity to rid this state of a piece of legislation that does not necessarily have the support of ethnics.
The NSW Parliament has now before it an opportunity to rid this state of a piece of legislation that does not necessarily have the support of ethnics.
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