Month: May 2016

The Joker in the crowd

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Militant activist (?) seeks permission for crowd to be arrested. Permission denied By PNG Echo No seriously! The irony was completely lost on this Court Jester, this wannabe: wannabe lawyer, wannabe politician, wannabe journalist…Figaro here, Figaro there… Bryan Kramer, the legal expert impersonator (who has managed to convince some gullible people that he’s legally qualified) took himself down to Unagi Oval today to inform the dozen or so protesters that they were committing an illegal act and that they should take themselves down to police station and be arrested (Most lawyers try to keep people out of jail but not Continue reading The Joker in the crowd→

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Slip rule applications are rarely successful.

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By PNG Echo That the leave sort by lawyers for the Prime Minister to apply the ‘Slip Rule’ to the recent Supreme Court ruling (lifting the injunction on arrests and harassment of the Prime Minister and his associates) was not granted today, is not surprising. I don’t believe there is any case which has actually been granted leave to make a Slip Rule Application since the rules were changed in 2012 requiring that leave be granted. What’s more, in this particular case the Justices who handed down the decision to lift the stay (Hartshorn, Makail, Sawong) are the ones that Continue reading Slip rule applications are rarely successful.→

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