any wonder lawyers don't get no respect

[Ken Gargett]

 

no surprise we are talking the gold coast.
Height of absurdity: Qld lawyer sues state for $73b over 'fear of heights' claim

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A solicitor with a “fear of heights” has sued Queensland authorities for $73 billion after claiming he was disadvantaged by his case being held in a first floor courtroom. Rex Martinich Print article Adrian Praljak photographed with resources billionaire Gina Hancock. (Image: Twitter) Gold Coast solicitor Adrian Praljak took action in the Federal Court against the State of Queensland, claiming Southport Magistrates Court had breached the Commonwealth Disability Discrimination Act. Praljak stated he was required to appear in a courtroom that was not located on the ground floor and, as a result of his acrophobia diagnosis, he pleaded guilty under duress, to domestic violence and unlawful stalking charges. He sought an apology from the state government and compensation “no less then (sic); $50,000,000,000. United States Dollars not including tax”, that charges be quashed and his career as a solicitor be “100% restored”. On March 22, 2018, prior to a hearing scheduled for May that year, Praljak contacted the magistrates court and asked to appear by telephone or in a courtroom on the ground floor due to vertigo and anxiety. The court responded that the case involved a specialist domestic violence team and it could not be moved and they had records to show Praljak had attended the same courtroom in the past with no issues. “As an outcome, I have been left with a criminal record, without any realistic means and as a self­ representing person, to have a correction of justice,” Praljak stated in an affidavit. “I am a citizen of this country, I am a taxpayer. However, the legal system has not abided by its principles, nor has it allowed any fair trial for myself and the circumstances around this case.” The state government responded that the court’s administrative decisions in Mr Praljak’s earlier criminal case had been granted legislated immunity from legal action such as that brought by Praljak. In a judgment handed down on Wednesday, Federal Court Justice Timothy McEvoy described Mr Praljak’s claims as “untenable”. Justice McEvoy stated Praljak’s case relied solely on an affidavit that was more than 1271-pages long and was “comprised largely of material which is not apparently relevant”. “It also includes a number of vague allegations of ‘criminal offences’ against non-parties to this proceeding,” Justice McEvoy stated. Justice McEvoy found the magistrates court acted under legal immunity and also invoked precedent that allowed cases to be terminated if they were “hopeless or foredoomed to fail”. “It is apparent that the application seeks to use the court’s procedures for an illegitimate purpose,” Justice McEvoy stated. Justice McEvoy did not grant leave for Praljak to pursue his case for discrimination under the Australian Human Rights Commission Act and dismissed his application with costs.
 

 

[Lamboinee]

1 hour ago, Ken Gargett said:

“hopeless or foredoomed to fail”

That's exactly how that terrified lawyer feels when he's at the top of an escalator. He can't even climb up to reach the scales of justice and his smoke detector battery hasn't been changed in years leading to psychosomatic tinitus from the constant beeping. This poor destitute solicitor is unable to climb a mere step stool so that he might look down his nose at others. Agony. 

A 1271 pg affidavit seems a bit much. I hope it had some pictures or at least wide margins.  

Why can't lawyers go to the beach?

Because cats keep trying to bury them in the sand.

[Ken Gargett]

1 minute ago, Lamboinee said:

That's exactly how that terrified lawyer feels when he's at the top of an escalator. He can't even climb up to reach the scales of justice and his smoke detector battery hasn't been changed in years leading to psychosomatic tinitus from the constant beeping. This poor destitute solicitor is unable to climb a mere step stool so that he might look down his nose at others. Agony. 

A 1271 pg affidavit seems a bit much. I hope it had some pictures or at least wide margins.  

Why can't lawyers go to the beach?

Because cats keep trying to bury them in the sand.

yes, 1,271 pages and apparently largely irrelevant. shoot me now. 

[Lamboinee]

56 minutes ago, Ken Gargett said:

1,271 pages and apparently largely irrelevan

So....you're saying there was SOME relevance?

Perhaps they should restore his license in an amount proportional to the relevance.

[Ken Gargett]

39 minutes ago, Lamboinee said:

So....you're saying there was SOME relevance?

Perhaps they should restore his license in an amount proportional to the relevance.

i think the legal profession can manage without him. 

[ayedfy]

Anecdotally, I have a bad case of arachnophobia. Hate spiders, can’t stand them, can’t suffer them to live in my house, get jumpy as hell by anything bigger than a daddy longlegs.

If you put a tarantula on my face, I still don’t think I’d plead guilty to domestic violence and stalking charges if they weren’t true. Climbing a flight of stairs could be unsettling with the phobia but it’s not exactly waterboarding is it?

[Lamboinee]

1 hour ago, ayedfy said:

If you put a tarantula on my face, I still don’t think I’d plead guilty to domestic violence and stalking charges if they weren’t true

If someone put a tarantula on  your face I think we could sue them for domestic violence! 

1 hour ago, ayedfy said:

anything bigger than a daddy longlegs.

Anything bigger than a daddy longlegs! holy moly, I saw a baby spider in the guest bathtub the other day and I filled the whole tub up with water and some toilet boil cleaner to make sure it was extra drowned! so creepy! I'll go back in there in about 3 days.

[Ken Gargett]

35 minutes ago, ayedfy said:

Anecdotally, I have a bad case of arachnophobia. Hate spiders, can’t stand them, can’t suffer them to live in my house, get jumpy as hell by anything bigger than a daddy longlegs.

If you put a tarantula on my face, I still don’t think I’d plead guilty to domestic violence and stalking charges if they weren’t true. Climbing a flight of stairs could be unsettling with the phobia but it’s not exactly waterboarding is it?

i believe that the venom in a daddy long legs is the most toxic of all spiders. 

that said, fear not. their mouths are far too small to be able to bite a human. 

so you would not have been happy with my old letterbox? perfectly harmless, though she was very protective whenever she laid little spiders - thousands of them. 

 

[Lamboinee]

Oh my. I think I have to wipe my hard drive and get a new monitor now. Y'all are messin' with some real-deal spiders! Fun fact, spiders cause hundreds of thousands of dollars and product recalls every year in the automotive industry.  They have necessitated the invention of several patented "spider nets" just to keep them out of pipes and tubes during manufacturing. 

[Ken Gargett]

Just now, Lamboinee said:

Oh my. I think I have to wipe my hard drive and get a new monitor now. Y'all are messin' with some real-deal spiders! Fun fact, spiders cause hundreds of thousands of dollars and product recalls every year in the automotive industry.  They have necessitated the invention of several patented "spider nets" just to keep them out of pipes and tubes during manufacturing. 

perhaps they get into computers as well. that would explain mine. 

[Lamboinee]

ever heard of "debugging" your computer. chuckle chuckle. 

at least they aren't in your veins

[ayedfy]

21 minutes ago, Ken Gargett said:

so you would not have been happy with my old letterbox? perfectly harmless, though she was very protective whenever she laid little spiders - thousands of them.

Maybe one of two things I’m least looking forward to about moving back to QLD! Very rare to see those biggies down here, we just get tiny black ones that leisurely crawl across the floor and give you plenty of time to sort them out.

As soon as the spider doesn’t crawl, but gallops… leaps… it’s nuclear war.