https://jeffreyphillipssc.com.au Mon, 31 Mar 2025 12:42:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= https://jeffreyphillipssc.com.au/ontario-restores-kings-counsel/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ontario-restores-kings-counsel https://jeffreyphillipssc.com.au/ontario-restores-kings-counsel/#comments Fri, 21 Jul 2023 06:51:04 +0000 Jeffrey Phillips SC http://jeffreyphillipssc.com.au/?p=1366 https://jeffreyphillipssc.com.au/ontario-restores-kings-counsel/feed/ 0 https://jeffreyphillipssc.com.au/nsw-bar-not-so-diverse/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nsw-bar-not-so-diverse https://jeffreyphillipssc.com.au/nsw-bar-not-so-diverse/#comments Sun, 23 Apr 2023 22:40:16 +0000 Jeffrey Phillips SC http://jeffreyphillipssc.com.au/?p=1349 https://jeffreyphillipssc.com.au/nsw-bar-not-so-diverse/feed/ 0 https://jeffreyphillipssc.com.au/Bar-Council-Elections?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bar-council-elections https://jeffreyphillipssc.com.au/Bar-Council-Elections#comments Sat, 21 Oct 2017 00:49:05 +0000 Jeffrey Phillips SC http://jeffreyphillipssc.com.au/?p=1101 zeitgeist of recent Bar Councils . A complete re-think of the challenges and the direction of the Bar is urgent.A variety of opinions is vital to find a way through the current difficulties. The Bar is in apparent numerical decline against the increasing numbers of our colleagues in the solicitors' branch of the legal profession . That fact has meant a loss of work and in turn less necessary advocacy experience for the junior Bar. That is not good for the Bar or the solicitors who rely upon a skilled band of advocates available to all . The celebrated 'cab rank rule' does not apply to solicitors, particularly the big firms who can pick and choose sides and clients . The symbiotic relationship between the two branches of the profession is a result of long held wisdom. This relationship is in danger of fracture . The Bar Councils of recent times have done little to restore it . Instead have engaged like university SRCs in peripheral political issues or behaved like Brahmins pretending all is well . I stand for the re-introduction of QC. I support a full embrace of mediation and the role of mediator as a skill for the Bar. My friend Mary Walker must be commended for her tireless campaign to bring this issue to our attention and benefit. I am opposed to the Bar expressing a view concerning Same Sex Marriage and similar matters of personal choice and conviction. This issue is a very personal one about which the Bar Council did not consult its members. The Equitable Gender Briefing policy should be abandoned and more focused assistance be given to those at the Bar who need help.   I would be delighted to receive your support.]]> https://jeffreyphillipssc.com.au/Bar-Council-Elections/feed/ 0 https://jeffreyphillipssc.com.au/thomson-reuters-interview-regarding-the-new-anti-bullying-laws/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=thomson-reuters-interview-regarding-the-new-anti-bullying-laws https://jeffreyphillipssc.com.au/thomson-reuters-interview-regarding-the-new-anti-bullying-laws/#comments Sun, 01 Sep 2013 12:09:49 +0000 Jeffrey Phillips SC http://jeffreyphillipssc.com.au/?p=872 ]]> https://jeffreyphillipssc.com.au/thomson-reuters-interview-regarding-the-new-anti-bullying-laws/feed/ 0 https://jeffreyphillipssc.com.au/Mad-Men-meets-Industral-Relations?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mad-men-meets-industral-relations https://jeffreyphillipssc.com.au/Mad-Men-meets-Industral-Relations#comments Fri, 29 Oct 2010 10:08:30 +0000 Jeffrey Phillips SC http://jeffreyphillipssc.com.au/?p=587 The American television series, Mad Men now in its fourth season is compelling viewing both dramatically and as social commentary. It is set on the cusp of the fifties and sixties in the fictional Madison Avenue advertising agency, Sterling Cooper . Baby boomers and their offspring when watching this show are looking at the prime years of the World War II generation at work and play. What immediately strikes one about this historically authentic show is the depiction of the social attitudes and mores in this busy office setting . Most noticeably everyone is smoking, constantly and in the office! The executives when not at a long lunch are regularly pouring a colleague a whisky from a bottle prominently on display in the office. The ethos of sexuality in the office is of the louche kind. The typing pool and models are fair game for conquest and open comment by the executive staff which is predominately male. This show brought to mind the changing nature of the Australian workplace and in particular for me the thirty five years of my working life in industrial relations and the legal profession. ]]> https://jeffreyphillipssc.com.au/Mad-Men-meets-Industral-Relations/feed/ 177 https://jeffreyphillipssc.com.au/workplace-review-journal-thompson-reuters/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=workplace-review-journal-thompson-reuters https://jeffreyphillipssc.com.au/workplace-review-journal-thompson-reuters/#comments Tue, 08 Jun 2010 08:14:46 +0000 Jeffrey Phillips SC http://jeffreyphillipssc.com.au/?p=520 Click Here]]> https://jeffreyphillipssc.com.au/workplace-review-journal-thompson-reuters/feed/ 225