Senior Partners Introduce ‘Revolutionary’ Casual Fridays, Staff Forced To Pretend It’s Not Just Jeans 28 January 2026 ISSUE NO. 10 ADELAIDE — In what’s being described as a “visionary shake-up of workplace culture,” senior partners at mid-tier law firm Hastings, Pike...
Lawyer Using Gmail Account Shows They Mean Business by Adding “Law” in Their Email Address 21 January 2026 ISSUE NO. 9 PERTH — Clients of sole practitioner Jason Harrington say they feel immediately reassured after receiving correspondence from...
This session examines Commissioner of Taxation v Roberts and Smith (1992) in the context of interest deductibility following Ure and Fletcher. The case considers how interest on partnership borrowings is to be characterised where borrowed funds were used to make...
Hallucinations Are a Model T Crash When cars first appeared on public roads, they were genuinely dangerous.They crashed. They frightened horses. They injured pedestrians. They broke down constantly. People died. Newspapers ran moral panics about the recklessness of...
New TV Show Claims To Portray “Real Life In An Australian Law Firm” — Nation Horrified 14 January 2026 ISSUE NO. 8 SYDNEY — Australian audiences are this week grappling with the release of Billable, a gritty new workplace drama marketed as “the first TV show to...
This session examines Fletcher v Federal Commissioner of Taxation and its place in the deductibility framework under s 51(1) of the ITAA 1936 (now s 8-1 ITAA 1997). Building on Ronpibon Tin and Ure, the case addresses how deductibility is assessed where the outgoing...
