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12 Jul 2011, 12:24 pm
In Mickovski v Financial Ombudsman Service Limited & Anor [2011] VSC 257 the Victorian Supreme Court decided that it had jurisdiction to review a decision of the Financial Ombudsman Service relating to a dispute by an insured with an insurer. [read post]
2 Aug 2007, 10:26 pm
Attorney Tom Frankovich and his disabled clients sue small businesses to make them accessible - and make millions Inside his elegant law office in a restored century-old Victorian at the upper end of Van Ness [in San Francisco], with his... [read post]
25 Dec 2017, 6:31 am
The web page of Victorian (Australia) Legal Services Board + Commissioners reports a recent sanction A former Melbourne solicitor has been struck off after pleading guilty to committing a multi-million dollar fraud against two banks. [read post]
7 Dec 2010, 1:47 am
“The justice secretary, Ken Clarke, will today detail his plans to divert thousands of offenders from prison to bring to an end the Victorian-style ‘bang ‘em up’ culture and reduce high reoffending rates. [read post]
2 Apr 2013, 5:46 am
The day after the Surrogacy Australia conference, the Victorian Assisted Reproductive Treatment Authority (VARTA) will be holding a seminar next Monday 8 April in Melbourne about donors, including hearing from prominent experts, as well as the experiences of donor conceived people. [read post]
28 Nov 2007, 11:32 am
The ACCC has been successful in 2 recent prosecutions: In Australian Competition & Consumer Commission v Australian Abalone Pty Ltd [2007] FCA 1834 penalties totalling $927,500 were imposed on individuals and companies involved in a Victorian abalone cartel. [read post]
19 Oct 2023, 6:41 am
” Tim Pallas, Victorian Treasurer, described the ZLEV Charge as “a fair charge. [read post]
3 Jan 2009, 4:58 am
Past notes: in the mid-Victorian period they thought stocks of the black stuff would be exhausted by 1900...That we have even got this far without exhausting the Earth's resources would have astonished the Victorians. [read post]
1 Dec 2010, 5:08 pm
Originally posted 2007-12-30 18:42:23. [read post]
29 Oct 2008, 11:29 am
Prison reformer misses the pointJuliet Lyon the director of Prison Reform Trust and secretary general of Penal Reform International, in an article for Comment is free concludes:"The conditions in prison may no longer be Dickensian but young mothers are still going to jail for the same reasons they were in Victorian times: poverty, debt, addiction and mental illness".I challenge her view that women are being sent to prison for "poverty, debt, addiction and mental… [read post]
1 Dec 2011, 12:19 pm
Freeman, Nicholas, 1895: Drama, Disaster, and Disgrace in Late Victorian Britain (Edinburgh University Press, 2011). [read post]
30 Aug 2010, 11:15 am
The keynote speakers are Walker Smith, Director of the Office of Global Affairs and Policy, Office of International Affairs, Environmental Protection Agency, USA and Christine Nixon, former Chair of Victorian Bushfire Reconstruction & Recovery Authority.The conference will be held at the Crown Promenade.More information and online registration can be found at http://eha.conferencemanagement.com.au/index.html [read post]
24 Aug 2019, 3:25 pm
Putting on its Victorian gentleman suit (pace Tom Wolfe), the Washington Post's editorial board tut-tuts a rich part of Washington, D.C. and its political patrons, for pulling out all stops to prevent construction of a child-migrant shelter in its fancy environs. [read post]
20 May 2008, 4:40 am
Peter Batchelor, the Victorian Minister for Energy and Resources, says they will be using 3D technology to help identify the best sites for carbon dioxide storage in the Gippsland Basin. [read post]
4 Sep 2007, 10:42 pm
Nicholas Gruen from Lateral Economics has released a report (pdf) he did for the Victorian Government in 2006 on Regulation and Innovation. [read post]
11 Feb 2009, 3:40 pm
Austrac has given guidance to superannuation fund trustees who may not be able to comply with section 32 of the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act 2006 (the identification requirement) when making payment as a result of Victorian bushfires or north Queensland floods AUSTRAC has indicated it will adopt a supervisory approach whereby it will not commence enforcement action against a trustee of a superannuation fund for breaching section 32 of the AML/CTF… [read post]
14 Apr 2008, 2:18 pm
Both houses of Victoria's parliament have passed the relationship register laws- so that Victoria will now have a relationship register on the same model as that in Tasmania. [read post]
5 May 2012, 7:29 am
The Law Reform Commission of the Australian state of Victoria is undertaking a review of guardianship laws that allow a designated person ("guardian") to have someone deprived of their liberty in a residential care context.Yesterday, it published a background paper comparing the legislation on the topic in a number of jurisdictions, including England and Wales, the Australian state of Queensland, Ontario, British Columbia, and Yukon. [read post]
28 May 2015, 3:58 pm
What is most interesting from the cultural point of view about the preposterous nonsense of trigger warnings for Victorian books is the obvious thirst or desire for victimization that they express. [read post]
30 Aug 2011, 2:28 pm
Maybe it's just fluff but I'm surprised more is not made of the fact that Steve Jobs and Larry Ellison are both the children of what we Victorians would have called "unwed mothers? [read post]
