“Sewell's defence barrister, Dermot Dann KC, said the defence would be calling witnesses to speak to context around what occurred on the day, including his suggestion that cars were damaged by counter-protesters.”

I’ll fetch the popcorn, there will be more than a grain of salt on it.

Vic Court of Appeal handing down judgment 10 am Friday.

It will be live streamed.

Ouch!

CAN YOU HEAR MARIAH CAREY AND MICHAEL BUBLE CLAWING A WAY BACK INTO YOUR SKULL LIKE THEY ARE CRYOGENICALLY FROZEN AND THAWED OUT ANNUALLY ONLY TO PUNISH YOUR SPECIES BEFORE BEING RETURNED TO THE ICE ONCE AGAIN IN JANUARY?

District Court Judge Anne Barnett said she accepted the offending was “associated with obsessional thinking rather than hostility, resentment or any suggestion of revenge.”

I would have thought posting deepfake pornography of a young woman is inherently hostile.

For anyone on here who is a barrister or has been one, have there been years you've struggled to make ends meet due to not being briefed?

Just pondering how it must feel for a fully trained barrister to have to negotiate settlements with people who don't actually want to fork over money.
I'm having a discussion with a liquidator who seems to think he can just take a months wages off me. Unfair preference, look it up! It's bs.

Anyway so we're all at the stage where the liquidator won't accept my fair offer and I won't accept his unfair offer. It's just emails going back and forth now saying number? Other number? Number but said differently?

For the interested, Number isn't very big on the scale of liquidator numbers. It's actually a drop in the bucket.

And this barrister in between is on the phone saying to me, who is just some wagey with heaps of time and no fucks, hey Number is not enough can you increase it?

Sir, you're asking me to increase Number by the equivalent of your hourly rate. How does that feel? Surely you're meant for a higher purpose.

We could do this dance all night, it's going to cost them more in their own wages than what they could ever hope to get from me.

Was the evidence portion hard for others? Just relieved it’s over for now…

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