Ganesh Sahathevan

by Ganesh Sahathevan                                                                                                                       The Hon Chief Justice Susan Kiefel AC  has relied on the findings of a one person inquiry to publicly condemn a former justice of the High Court. As reported yesterday : Regulation 19 certificates can be used by the legal hierarchy to discourage complaints of sexual harassment: NSW Law Society and the NSW Legal Profession Admission Board have allowed the Regulation to be used to deter, discourage and discredit complaints of poor teaching, course delivery, what more sexual harassment To understand how great that fear of retaliation by the legal hierarchy can be, see how, as far back in 2006, a budding lawyer would not give his name when criticising the PLT:  In a report on practical legal training (PLT) this week,  Lawyers Weekly  reveals that some students feel that a $6,000 fee could be lessened and considerable tim

by Ganesh Sahathevan                                                                                                                       The Hon Chief Justice Susan Kiefel AC has relied on the findings of a one person inquiry to publicly condemn a former justice of the High Court. Certificates issued pursuant to  Regulation 19 (Reg 19) of The Legal Profession Uniform Admission Rules certify to admitting bodies such as the NSW Legal Profession Admission Board that law graduates who seek  admission to practise law have not been subject to disciplinary action while pursuing their legal studies,  including the compulsory  Professional Legal Training course.The NSW Law Society was made aware and queried about these issues but chose to remain silent.  Reg 19 is applied broadly to include anything that the issuer might find offensive, or threatening to its business. Consequently the power to issue the certificate can be used to force the withdrawal of any adverse reports agains

by Ganesh Sahathevan                                                                                                                        The Hon Chief Justice Susan Kiefel AC                                                                   has relied on the findings of a one person                                                                   inquiry to publicly condemn a former justice of the                                                                   High Court.  The SMH and others have reported that the High Court commissioned the former Inspector General Of Intelligence and Security Vivienne Thom, to investigate allegations of sexual harassment made against former High Court judge Dyson Heydon.   The Chief Justice Of the High Court,  Susan Kiefel, has issued a statement   confirming Thom's findings that Heydon had sexually harassed a number of female associates. Given this precedent,  Mdm Justice Kiefel must surely see it open to her to commission Tho

by  Ganesh Sahathevan                                             Lindt Cafe was a good example of where TOU                                                were not allowed to do their job     In February last year it was reported that personnel of the NSW Police Tactical Operations Unit (TOU) were being put at risk by rules that prevented them from accessing long arms as and when needed.   As a result TOU personnel were being prevented from doing what they are employed to do: defend the public and this land.  Meanwhile TOU  seems to have become the latest victim of the Australian version of the US Black Lives Matter protest.  TOU personnel have been accused of showing 'intentional disrespect to the First Nations people", which in NSW Public Service language means " we want those involved to be sanctioned with the harshest possible penalties". This latest piece of virtue signalling is a danger to the rest of us who live here. We need TOU to be

by Ganesh Sahathevan Legal industry newsletter Justinian reported in September  2014:  Slicing-up the pie for the post-admission legal education market ... Lots of loot at stake as College of Law tries to push the NSW Law Society off a cliff ... Constitutional amendment ... Getting out from under the skirts  IT'S  dreadful to have to report an unhappy stand-off between the Law Society of NSW and its love child the College of Law.  The COL wants to break its ties with the society and has pressed for a change to its constitution so as to remove the Law Soc's power of veto over major decisions. Last month Joe Catanzariti, the chairman of the College of Law, wrote to the Law Society asking that the relationship between the two bodies be terminated.  The COL claims that the Law Society's role on its board of governors is conflicted because it also engages in continuing legal education, one of the COL's core businesses.   Quoting the then CEO of the NSW Law

by Ganesh Sahathevan                                                               Minister For Education                                                                  Dan Tehan The Minister for Education Dan Tehan has announced the end of free childcare  Parents and womens' groups have protested, arguing that they will have to make an impossible choice between work  and caring for their children, given ongoing COVID19 restrictions. Meanwhile Tehan continues to fund Practical Legal Training which even lawyers say is of little use, and which provides an oversupplied market for lawyers. This is strange, given Tehan's argument that the childcare subsidy is being removed in order to build demand and provide a price signal to the market for childcare services. The market for the supply of PLT services is  distorted, t he case of the College Of Law Sydney being a good example  . Diverting the capitalised funding of AUD 3 Billion that will be provided the College Of Law