by nyst-admin | 24/04/2020 | Criminal Law, Opinion
With COVID-19 directives flying thick and fast from both federal and state institutions, many of us may be getting a little confused about precisely what we can and can’t do, as a matter of law. Every day, someone asks my advice about the fine detail – “Can I... 
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 Julie McCoy | 17/01/2020 | Opinion, Politics, Privacy
Don’t you sometimes miss the good, old-fashioned Moral High Ground? As a post-war baby, the world I was born into seemed a brave and righteous one. Our fathers had just fought and died to free us all from fascism and oppression. The world had paid a terrible price,... 
by Julie McCoy | 08/11/2019 | Criminal Law, Opinion
About ten years before the birth of Christ the great Roman poet Publius Ovidius Naso, in his collection of epistolary poems known as The Heroides, coined the Latin phrase Exitus acta probat, which translates roughly to the often-quoted mantra ‘The end justifies the... 
by Julie McCoy | 04/10/2019 | Criminal Law, International, Opinion, Politics
In February 1692, in a secluded village in the isolated British American colony of Massachusetts, 9-year-old Betty Parris and her 11-year-old cousin Abigail Williams, began to behave very strangely indeed. It seems they had recently taken to screaming, ranting and... 
by nyst-admin | 24/07/2019 | Criminal Law, Opinion
This week Sky News aired the explosive documentary “Lawyer X: The Untold Story”, recounting the sorry tale of the now-notorious double-dealings of former Melbourne Barrister, Nicola Gobbo. Gobbo, who over a lengthy period represented a string of high-profile...
