ASADA issues show-cause notices to Essendon players

[Dancin' Douggy]

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Me too, unequivocally. Jaeger is Ben Cousins on steroids. When he gets a good run at it he will be a phenomenon and Heppell et. al. will look like VFL players next to him. He's going to be top 5 in the comp one day and the best time to get him is now when his value is low.

He's icing for us and just what we need. We have the backs and when Crameri returns the forwards too but a player like Jaeger in the midfield and anything is possible over an extended time frame. He's explosive, strong and makes the best decisions every time. He's potentially a game breaking mid.

Yep, I agree. IF we can get him, IF he passes a medical, he's what we should be going after.

[Bornadog]

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James Hird loses court battle with insurer over legal bills of close to $660,000

[westdog54]

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James Hird loses court battle with insurer over legal bills of close to $660,000

Wow, that's,... too bad...

[Greystache]

Re: ASADA issues show-cause notices to Essendon players

James Hird loses court battle with insurer over legal bills of close to $660,000

Robbo reporting Hird has strong legal advice he can appeal and will win

[Ghost Dog]

Re: ASADA issues show-cause notices to Essendon players

James Hird loses court battle with insurer over legal bills of close to $660,000

I can't see too many AFL watchers being disappointed with this. Justice of a sort.

[bulldogtragic]

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Robbo reporting Hird has strong legal advice he can appeal and will win

Tania?

[Greystache]

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Tania?

Could well be. Probably a good example of why you should get advice from a lawyer, not a paralegal (despite her reinventing history to claim otherwise).

But seriously, there's an ethical discussion to be had regarding this at some point. I don't have time to go into it in detail now but have Hird's lawyers acted ethically in continuing to take huge sums of money to represent him in hopelessly lost causes? Hird obviously has a multitude of problems, the most obvious is being unable to listen to anything he doesn't want to hear and the need to be told he's right. So have his lawyers strung him along telling him don't stand for this let's challenge it in court again, knowing full well they're unlikely to win but also knowing Hird will want to do it? Or is it a case of simply doing what your clients tells you to do and not trying to talk him out of it- A fool and his money type situation?

I have no sympathy for Hird, he's a horrible human being, but there should circuit breakers in the system to protect even the worst people from themselves.

[Twodogs]

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Is Tania really just a para-legal? It's pretty tragic that she claims to be a lawyer then.

[Happy Days]

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Could well be. Probably a good example of why you should get advice from a lawyer, not a paralegal (despite her reinventing history to claim otherwise).

But seriously, there's an ethical discussion to be had regarding this at some point. I don't have time to go into it in detail now but have Hird's lawyers acted ethically in continuing to take huge sums of money to represent him in hopelessly lost causes? Hird obviously has a multitude of problems, the most obvious is being unable to listen to anything he doesn't want to hear and the need to be told he's right. So have his lawyers strung him along telling him don't stand for this let's challenge it in court again, knowing full well they're unlikely to win but also knowing Hird will want to do it? Or is it a case of simply doing what your clients tells you to do and not trying to talk him out of it- A fool and his money type situation?

I have no sympathy for Hird, he's a horrible human being, but there should circuit breakers in the system to protect even the worst people from themselves.

He probably has a case against his legal advisers in breaching their overarching obligation to him, but he appears to have also done a fair bit of "cowboy shit" in pursuing his case that might complicate it.

[Greystache]

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Is Tania really just a para-legal? It's pretty tragic that she claims to be a lawyer then.

She did a law degree but was never a lawyer like she claims, and was certainly never a high profile lawyer. She also claims to have been top of her class at Melbourne Law, which again is false, a previous executive I worked was in the same year and described her as a "very mediocre student". Then again she was Tania back then rather than Tar-ni-er as she pronounces it these days.

[Bornadog]

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She did a law degree but was never a lawyer like she claims, and was certainly never a high profile lawyer. She also claims to have been top of her class at Melbourne Law, which again is false, a previous executive I worked was in the same year and described her as a "very mediocre student". Then again she was Tania back then rather than Tar-ni-er as she pronounces it these days.

She worked for Corrs Chambers Westgarth as a commercial property lawyer

[1eyedog]

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Tania is by far the best punishment I could ever wish on James. I reckon she smacks him around.

[Ghost Dog]

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Could well be. Probably a good example of why you should get advice from a lawyer, not a paralegal (despite her reinventing history to claim otherwise).

But seriously, there's an ethical discussion to be had regarding this at some point. I don't have time to go into it in detail now but have Hird's lawyers acted ethically in continuing to take huge sums of money to represent him in hopelessly lost causes? Hird obviously has a multitude of problems, the most obvious is being unable to listen to anything he doesn't want to hear and the need to be told he's right. So have his lawyers strung him along telling him don't stand for this let's challenge it in court again, knowing full well they're unlikely to win but also knowing Hird will want to do it? Or is it a case of simply doing what your clients tells you to do and not trying to talk him out of it- A fool and his money type situation?

I have no sympathy for Hird, he's a horrible human being, but there should circuit breakers in the system to protect even the worst people from themselves.

Fairness please. Remember, the struggling lawyers of this country need to put food on the table and audis in the garage. Would you deny these Australian workers their right to long lunches and trips to Vanuatu just because James can't reign in his ego?

[Ghost Dog]

Re: ASADA issues show-cause notices to Essendon players

Could well be. Probably a good example of why you should get advice from a lawyer, not a paralegal (despite her reinventing history to claim otherwise).

But seriously, there's an ethical discussion to be had regarding this at some point. I don't have time to go into it in detail now but have Hird's lawyers acted ethically in continuing to take huge sums of money to represent him in hopelessly lost causes? Hird obviously has a multitude of problems, the most obvious is being unable to listen to anything he doesn't want to hear and the need to be told he's right. So have his lawyers strung him along telling him don't stand for this let's challenge it in court again, knowing full well they're unlikely to win but also knowing Hird will want to do it? Or is it a case of simply doing what your clients tells you to do and not trying to talk him out of it- A fool and his money type situation?

I have no sympathy for Hird, he's a horrible human being, but there should circuit breakers in the system to protect even the worst people from themselves.

Fairness please. Remember, the struggling lawyers of this country need to put food on the table and audis in the garage. Would you deny these Australian workers their right to long lunches and trips to Vanuatu just because James can't reign in his ego?

[ledge]

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A bit like divorce lawyers saying you can get more, knowing even the most reasonable proposition was made. They really want to keep getting paid.
Lets face it if divorce was done by the basic rules. divorce lawyers wouldn't have a job.
I got divorced once and let me tell you they don't have a bone of what's right or wrong in their body.
Show me the money !!