In 2010 I was elected as Patron of the St John’s College Student’s Club. As Patron I established an annual essay prize. The first was on the topic of Richard O’Connor, an old boy of the College ,a draftsman of the Australian Constitution and a member of the first High Court of Australia. The winning entry was by Zac Thompson. Zac’s essay is set out below. Patrick O’Sullivan . [...] Continue Reading…

On The Case By Jeffrey Phillips

1. In the ABC Insiders’ compere Barry Cassidy’s new book called, “Party Thieves” (Melbourne University Press), former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is said to have referred to the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon as “Spanky Banky”. However, New South Wales Supreme Court Justice Michael Adams, in a series of decisions , whilst on secondment to the United Nations’ internal employee tribunal , the United Nations Dispute Tribunal( UNDT) has given some UN officials a thorough spanking. (See Betucci ats Secretary-General of the United Nations Judgment Order No. 59(NY/2010)/Rev.1. Justice Adams who a few years ago, delivered a leading case on gross workplace bullying (Naidu ats Group 4 Securitas Pty Limited & Anor [2005] NSWSC 618) was not going to be bullied by some unknown UN officials unwilling to submit to the orders of their own tribunal.

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Click here to read my review titled Cavalier v The Roundheads as published in Work Place Review. Rodney Cavalier’s new book tells what is wrong with the New South Wales Labour Party and how to fix it. Click here to read my review of Power Crisis: The Self-Destruction of a State Labor Party

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One of the requisites of being an employee is to be ready, willing and able to work. A dilemma facing many employers is what to do with an injured worker for whom rehabilitation has not succeeded in restoring that person to health and fitness .This paper which I delivered at a seminar of LBRLegal deals with this question. Download Terminating Injured Employees. [...] Continue Reading…

THE NSW Coalition parties have rejected calls by the legal profession for a major reform program to address structural problems in the state’s occupational health and safety system. Here is an article I worte which was published in The Australian Legal Affairs section. Download a copy of my article. [...] Continue Reading…