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Solicitor who misrepresented judge’s view loses appeal of caution
Legal Ethics 2025-11-10 11:51 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai

A solicitor who attributed a barrister’s submission about his client’s capacity to a Supreme Court judge in a letter to a costs assessor has lost an appeal of a NSW Law Society decision to caution him.

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Barrister David Rofe’s lover comes up short in dispute over $27M estate
Estates 2021-04-13 9:43 pm By Miklos Bolza

A former lover of prominent Sydney barrister and former mayor David Rofe QC has lost a feud over his $27 million estate, with a judge confirming the validity of a will written years after Rofe was diagnosed with dementia.

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COVID-19 eviction moratorium doesn’t apply to lease breach unrelated to rent, court finds
COVID-19 2020-11-03 5:08 pm By Miklos Bolza

Two Sydney-based companies have lost a bid to reinstate their commercial lease, with a judge rejecting submissions that the COVID-19 moratorium on evictions applied to rental agreement breaches that did not relate to rent. In a judgment delivered on October 28, NSW Supreme Court Justice Geoff Lindsay rejected an interlocutory application by First Renewable and…

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