by nyst-admin | 15/04/2020 | Business, Commercial Law, Dispute Resolution, Wills and Estates
Biologist, historian and futurist H G Wells, author of the sci-fi classic The War of the Worlds – a tale of alien invasion and annihilation by pathogen – once famously wrote “Adapt or perish, is nature’s inexorable imperative.” It could be very good advice...
by Julie McCoy | 31/01/2020 | Dispute Resolution, Litigation, Opinion, Politics
For the past couple of months, I have been receiving messages and calls from concerned relatives and friends back home in Malaysia wanting to know whether I have been affected by the recent bushfires. Thankfully, like most Gold Coasters, I wasn’t physically confronted...
by nyst-admin | 19/02/2019 | Dispute Resolution, Litigation, Politics
It’s often said one should never discuss politics, sex or religion at a dinner party. The latest news out of the Wonderful World of the Public Service certainly seems to attest to the wisdom of that simple sentiment. In 2012, Ms Michaela Banerji, who was then a public...
by nyst-admin | 21/09/2018 | Dispute Resolution, Litigation
Those more cynical than I have been sometimes known to quip that “Justice favours the well-heeled”. It is undoubtedly true. Whilst money may not buy happiness, it can certainly deliver lots of lawyering, and in the cutthroat world of commercial litigation,...
by nyst-admin | 27/04/2018 | Dispute Resolution, International, Litigation, Politics
Anyone who has been following US domestic politics over the past 12 months will be aware of the fascinating legal storm clouds brewing over the Leader of the Free World, one Mr Donald J Trump. Since May 2017 the stoic and uncompromising former Director of the Federal...
by nyst-admin | 13/10/2017 | Criminal Law, Dispute Resolution, International, Technology
The other night I had the craziest dream. Remember Haley Joel Osment? He’s that cute-but-oh-so-creepy little weird kid with the Sad Sack face who kept seeing dead people in M. Night Shymalan’s 1999 supernatural horror-movie The Sixth Sense. If you were as...
