Contempt of Court has hit the news big time recently, indeed it hasn’t been so on trend since Jim Carey’s character in “Liar, Liar” yelled at an obviously unimpressed Judge “I hold myself in contempt, why should you be any different!” The proceedings in the Victorian Supreme Court are likely to be much more reserved,…

We had a reminder this week from Tasmania about the heads of damages available to persons who have suffered personal injury in the case of Cooper v Neubert. The background details to the plaintiff’s claim can only be described as horrific. She was a passenger in a car driving by a friend of hers. The…