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maranofamilylawyers · 1 year

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How to Find the Best Family Lawyer in Sydney

When it comes to family law, there are a lot of lawyers to choose from. You want to make sure you pick the right one for your situation.

You need to find a best Family Lawyer in Sydney that can handle your case quickly, and get the results you deserve. Fortunately, there are several great Family Lawyers in Sydney that can help you.

John R Quinn & Co.

Founded in 1986, John R Quinn & Co is a top-rated Family Lawyer in Sydney. This reputable firm offers legal services for all aspects of family law, including divorce, separation and property settlement.

Their team of experienced, specialised family lawyers are committed to providing you with clarity and understanding during this difficult time. Their aim is to make your situation as stress-free and as simple as possible.

They are also extremely discreet in their dealings with you, ensuring that your information is always kept confidential.

Quinn has won extensive recognition as a leading legal figure, achieving the status of a “legal titan” (Los Angeles Daily Journal) and a “known litigation genius” (Chambers USA). He is the founder of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, the largest law firm in the world devoted solely to business litigation and arbitration.

Boyes & D’Souza Solicitors

Whether you’re going through a separation or divorce, you can trust Boyes & D’Souza Solicitors to represent your best interests. They offer a wide range of family law services and their lawyers are skilled in dealing with all types of family disputes.

They also provide mediation services for family law cases and can help parties to resolve issues without resorting to costly court procedures. The firm has extensive experience in divorce, property settlement, asset division, parenting arrangements, financial agreements, spousal maintenance and other matters related to family law.

The firm’s main priority is to protect the rights of their clients. They will ensure that they’re treated with dignity and respect, and that they can talk freely about their concerns. They also understand how difficult it can be to go through a divorce and they’ll make sure to provide emotional support as well.

O’Sullivan Legal

O’Sullivan Legal is a top-rated Family Lawyer in Sydney that offers comprehensive family law services. Their team is renowned for their ability to provide clients with accurate advice and practical solutions that will lead to the best possible outcome. O’Sullivan also provides mediation services to help disputing parties find common ground and reach a settlement without having to go to court. Their family mediation approach allows disputing parties to identify a fair and equitable solution that will benefit everyone involved.

Their family law lawyers are committed to making sure that each client is represented fairly and accurately. They ensure that the legal process is simple and that everyone understands what to expect.

Their commercial litigation practice includes representation of clients in disputes involving contract disputes, partnership and shareholder matters, unfair trade practices, and misappropriation of trademarks. They are also recognized for their work in insurance litigation.

Nolan Lawyers

Nolan Lawyers is a top-rated Best Family Lawyers Sydney with extensive expertise in all areas of family law. They focus on making the process of resolution less stressful for their clients, particularly children.

They offer a range of services related to family law including separation and divorce, property settlements, child custody and spousal maintenance. They also provide mediation services to help couples resolve issues without going to court.

Their team of lawyers are highly experienced in all areas of family law, and have been helping Sydney residents with their legal matters for years. They pride themselves on providing clear and concise communication to their clients, and work toward realistic solutions that allow them to get back to a normal life.

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naturalrights-retard · 1 year

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The Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (“TGA”) did not fulfil their duty to properly regulate the covid injections, resulting in harm and damage to Australians, argues a Class Action lawsuit filed on Wednesday in the Federal Court of Australia.

The action is seeking compensation on behalf of covid vaccine-injured Australians for damages and losses sustained.

Over 500 injured covid vaccine-injured Australians, many of whom have suffered life-altering adverse events, have now expressed interest in the action, as have family members of Australians who died after receiving the vaccine.

The follow are extracts from an article ‘Class Action lawsuit cites regulatory failures over covid vaccines’ by Rebekah Barnett and published by ‘Dystopian Down Under’. You can subscribe to and follow Dystopian Down Under HERE.

The Class Action seeks to hold the TGA to account for alleged, “negligence, breach of statutory duty and misfeasance in public office” in its failure to properly approve and monitor the covid vaccines, resulting in harms to Australians.

Class Action respondents include, but are not limited to, the Australian Government, the Department of Health and Aged Care Secretary Dr Brendan Murphy, and the Former Deputy Secretary of Health Products Regulation Group Adjunct Professor John Skerritt.

The action was filed by Brisbane law firm NR Barbi Solicitor on behalf of Lead Applicants Gareth O’Gradie, Antonio Derose, and Anthony Rose. The Lead Applicants are representing the covid vaccine-injured across all Australian jurisdictions who have suffered loss and damage as a result of being injected with one or more of the covid vaccines.

Dr Melissa McCann, GP at the Whitsunday Family Practice, instigated the action and has initiated a crowdfunding campaign to assist in funding legal expenses. She says that a Class Action is needed because the compensation scheme has failed vaccine-injured Australians.

A recent review of the compensation scheme in The Australian revealed that only 126 out of 3,395 claims made to the scheme so far have been approved. 2,357 claims are in progress, 562 have been rejected, and 350 have been withdrawn.

Several of the vaccine-injured registered in this action have shared their stories with Instagram archive project, Jab Injuries Australia (JIA). 37-year-old Sydney mum Mel shared her story on the page earlier this year. After three Pfizer shots, Mel told JIA, “I’m now disabled and have severe debilitating pain. I regret taking these vaccines every day of my life.” Should the action be successful, financial compensation will assist in covering some of Mel’s treatment costs – she has spent tens of thousands of dollars on treatments so far. But more than that, Mel wants justice.

A parent who attended the courthouse on Monday is Raelene, mother of Caitlin Gotze. 23-year-old Caitlin died shortly after her second Pfizer vaccination, which she got because it was mandated for her job, in 2021. Caitlin was bedridden for four days after the second shot, developing severe shortness of breath and malaise in the following weeks. Six weeks later, Caitlin went to the emergency department and was given a ventilator and steroids. Three days after this, she was found dead in her car at the Toowoomba horse racing stables where she worked.

Six months after Caitlin’s death, the Queensland Coroner officiated the cause of death as asthma. However, Caitlin never had asthma. Raelene is taking steps to have the investigation into Caitlin’s death reopened. “Where there is risk there must be choice. Cailtin had no choice, she had no informed consent,” says Raelene. “I want to see accountability. I want the government to take responsibility for the immeasurable harm they’ve caused.”

“Australians who have experienced a serious adverse event following covid-19 vaccination are invited to step forward and register for this Class Action,” says instructing solicitor Natalie Strijland of NR Barbi Solicitor.

Eligible Group Members include those who have suffered a serious adverse event either partly or wholly by reason of the covid injection. Serious adverse events include:

death;

a life-threatening event;

an event which requires in-patient hospitalisation;

an event which resulted in persistent or significant disability or incapacity, including: permanent impairment of a body function or permanent damage to a body structure;

an event which necessitated medical or surgical intervention to prevent permanent impairment of a body function or permanent damage to a body structure;

an event causing a congenital anomaly, birth defect or stillbirth;

a medically important event;

an event that made one or more of the outcomes above more likely; or

was an event that required intervention to prevent one or more of the above outcomes, including events that required intensive treatment in an emergency department or at home but did not result in hospitalisation.

Read more about the Covid Vaccine Class Action HERE. Eligible Group Members are invited to register details HERE.

Featured image: Members of the Covid vaccine-injured community and advocates meet on the steps of the Federal Court, Sydney, NSW taken from ‘Class Action lawsuit cites regulatory failures over covid vaccines’ by Rebekah Barnett

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thenortonlawgroup · 4 days

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Sydney Domestic Abuse Attorneys

The Norton Law Group is a reputable, well-established legal firm that includes some of Sydney's top family lawyers and specialists. We enjoy a solid reputation with both our peers and clients. Our solicitors at The Norton Law Group are among the top family lawyers in Sydney. We specialise in resolving complex family law matters. As the best family lawyers, we provide the most skilled family lawyers for property settlement, parenting concerns, divorce, child support, custody, and financial agreements. We also specialise in mediation. Our goals are to give you Knowledge, Empowerment and Resolution.

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Queer reading chapter 3 of Our Mutual Friend:

Mortimer has to go to the Hexam household as part of the Harmon case, and Eugene tags along with him. For some reason.

It's mentioned that Eugene and Mortimer were "two friends (once boys together at a public school)". The mention of public school is partly a class indicator ('public schools' in Britain are a certain type of fee-paying school, strongly associated with the British 'ruling class'), but could also potentially be a hint at sexuality - most public schools encouraged the development of homosocial bonds between the boys (partly to stop them seeking out girls), and some of the schools (especially Eton) would tend to overlook if those homosocial bonds became sexual. The idea was that when boys left school, they would leave any homosexual leanings behind them, but of course this was not always the case.

We learn about Eugene and Mortimer's professions: Mortimer is a solicitor and Eugene is a barrister; they both entered those professions at the instigation of their families, not through any desire of their own; they are both lazy, and do not commit to their professions; the Harmon case is Mortimer's first paying case; Eugene has had no previous work at all.

It does seem to me that Eugene and Mortimer are characters who are very much in dialogue with other characters from the mid-nineteenth century: Arthur Pendennis and George Warrington from Thackeray's Pendennis (who went to separate public schools, went to the same university, and lived together as young adults, and whose relationship can be read as queer); Clive Newcome from Thackeray's The Newcomes (who went to the same public school as Arthur Pendennis and had a "rapturous" "romantic" friendship with him); David Copperfield from Dickens's David Copperfield (who did not go to public school, but who formed a fairly queer relationship with another boy, James Steerforth, at a private school); Sydney Carton and Mr Stryver from Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities (who both attended Shrewsbury public school, who both studied in Paris together, who essentially jobshare and who have an (unhealthy) relationship that can be read as queer); and Robert Audley and George Talboys from Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret (who both attended Eton public school, who travel and live together for a while in adulthood, and who have a relationship that can be read as queer). With the exception of Clive Newcome (artist) and George Talboys (soldier and gold-digger in the literal digging-for-gold sense of the word), all of these characters are - nominally at least - lawyers, just like Eugene and Mortimer. Most of them - especially Robert Audley, the most 'recent' to Eugene and Mortimer - are presented as in some way 'lazy' or otherwise not committed to the practice of the law. Robert, Eugene and Mortimer seem to me to be the pinacle of this 'ambiguously queer lazy lawyer' character type which has been developing over the previous decade or so.

In the cab, Eugene puts his legs up on the opposite bench, and Mortimer asks if he can put his legs up too, then does. I sort of assume they have to cross their legs over each other for both their legs to fit on the bench? unclear; but regardless, they are sat side-by-side and seem comfortable being in physical proximity with each other.

Eugene lights Mortimer's cigar, and they both smoke. The lighting of someone else's cigar / cigarette is often framed in popular culture as erotic - there's a post floating around tumblr somewhere about the intimacy and eroticism of lighting someone's cigar for them.

In the scene with Eugene and Mortimer talking in the cab, we see a different dynamic between the two of them than we saw at the Veneering dinner table in chapter 2. If anything, Eugene now leads ("I shouldn’t know how to do it", "I hate my profession", "It was forced upon me [...] We have got a precious one", "There are four of us"), and Mortimer responds ("I am far from being clear [...] that I have much advantage over you", "I hate mine", "It was forced upon me [...] And we have got a precious one", "I am one by myself, one"). Eugene also appears to lead physically: putting his legs up and presumably lighting his cigar first, and Mortimer asks to follow.

On a more general note, pay attention to this exchange - this is going to be important for Eugene in particular:

‘Precisely my view of the case, Eugene. But show me a good opportunity, show me something really worth being energetic about, and I’ll show you energy.’ ‘And so will I,’ said Eugene.

Dickens's narratorial style in Our Mutual Friend is interesting, in that it shifts about quite a bit. For example, while much of it is in past tense (such as chapter 3), some chapters are in present tense (such as chapter 2). The point of view can also switch, including within a chapter.

For most of chapter 3, the point of view seems to stay fairly close to how Mortimer is experiencing the events that unfold. However, towards the end of the chapter, the narrator stops 'following' Mortimer, and instead follows Charley Hexam home, before switching perspective to a narratorial voice seems a bit more distant from the characters.

Compare the following:

‘Only papers on the unfortunate man, I see,’ said Lightwood, glancing from the description of what was found, to the finder. ‘Only papers.’ Here the girl arose with her work in her hand, and went out at the door. ‘No money,’ pursued Mortimer; ‘but threepence in one of the skirt-pockets.’ ‘Three. Penny. Pieces,’ said Gaffer Hexam, in as many sentences.

and:

The boy lifted the latch he had lifted before, and found his sister again seated before the fire at her work. Who raised her head upon his coming in and asking: ‘Where did you go, Liz?’ ‘I went out in the dark.’ ‘There was no necessity for that. It was all right enough.’ ‘One of the gentlemen, the one who didn’t speak while I was there, looked hard at me. And I was afraid he might know what my face meant. [...]’

When Mortimer's perspective is guiding the narrative voice, Lizzie is nameless - "the girl" - and apparently motiveless: she goes out of the door without any explanation. The reader can infer that this is the same girl who was rowing the boat in chapter 1, and she is probably leaving the room because she is ashamed about her father stealing from a dead body, as she was in chapter 1, but that's not expressed by the narrator because Mortimer doesn't know that (we can tell from the dialogue he's got his suspicions of Gaffer, but these suspicions do not appear to extend to Lizzie).

However, once Mortimer is no longer there and the narratorial voice has 'left' him for the time being, we get to see a conversation between Charley and Lizzie where Lizzie explains her motive for leaving the room: Eugene was looking at her. She says she was afraid that Eugene might see in her face her guilt over her father's stealing, so she left the room.

What's notable about this to me from a queer lens is that Eugene looking at Lizzie was entirely absent from the part of the chapter told from Mortimer's perspective.

On a more general note, I think it's possibly worth noting that Eugene's interest in Lizzie predates him ever seeing her. Near the beginning of the chapter, Charley is talking about his education and how "it's my sister's contriving". He then speaks "slightingly" of her, and Eugene appears to take exception to this. Eugene is also presumably the one who says, "You seem to have a good sister."

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4/ Percy Le Vaux - the victim's 'most intimate friend'

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4/ Percy Le Vaux - the victim's 'most intimate friend'

Percy Le Vaux moved to Cairns intent on achieving wealth and power. It never quite worked out.

At the time of Percy’s birth, his father worked as headmaster of a small school on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls. But when Percy was five, George Victor Le Vaux uprooted his young family and moved them to Australia. He never explained why.

For good reason.

It’s unlikely he would have found work teaching in Australia if authorities knew the Canadians dismissed him from his previous position for an unmentioned but obviously serious transgression.

Le Vaux taught in Sydney for a short while before successfully applying for the job of headmaster at Roma in country Queensland. In later years, he claimed he moved to Queensland at the invitation of Premier Sir Thomas McIlwraith. Notably, he only mentioned that once McIlwraith was dead and unable to disagree. But if the Premier knew Le Vaux and thought so highly of his teaching, why bring him to Queensland only to dump him in the outback?

In fact, newspaper articles indicate a vacancy arose for a principal at Roma. Le Vaux applied, and the local school board selected him for the job as per standard practice.

The new Roma headmaster was a fantasist who dreamed as a child of greatness. He believed “a grand name would advance him in the world.” So young George Vaugh became Mr George Victor Le Vaux. The ambitious lad abandoned England in his late teens. In a family tree he drew up in his later years, Le Vaux claimed that, at 18, he “served in the 5th Cazadons Garabaldine 1860. Present at LaScala, Palermo, Volturno Oct. 3rd 1860.” A condensed version of the same biography claiming service with Garibaldi in the Italian Wars of Unification is inscribed on his tombstone in a Toowoomba cemetery.

A curiously inaccurate curriculum vitae for a man of learning.

During the Wars of Unification, Garibaldi created 5 regiments of mainly Sicilian volunteers, known as the Cacciatori delle Alpi (Hunters of the Alps). Le Vaux’s ‘cazodons’ is probably a garbled version of cazadors, the Spanish word for hunters.

Garibaldi fought no battles at La Scala. It was an opera house, not a battlefield. And the battle of Volturno was well and truly over on October 3rd 1860, having taken place on the 1st. The fat lady had already sung.

Who knows if 18-year-old George Victor Le Vaux ever visited Italy? His biography seems the result of someone unfamiliar with the country, language, and war attempting to cobble together a story from bits and pieces they’d picked up here and there.

Military imposters are not uncommon. Military service impresses. It can improve a person’s social standing and enhance employment prospects. It certainly worked for Thomas Seaton, Inspector of Nuisances for the Municipality of Cairns.

After his future prospects plummeted to the bottom of Niagara Falls, George Victor Le Vaux resurrected his social standing in outback Queensland.

Then, after a decade in Roma, Le Vaux senior achieved a promotion. He was appointed the foundation principal of Indooroopilly State School in Brisbane, with young Percy as the new school’s first registered pupil. Le Vaux instituted a Cadet Corps in both schools, similar to the Church Lad’s Brigade in Cairns. Teenage boys underwent basic military training, practising shooting at a rifle range and drilling with short muzzle-loading firearms fitted with bayonet blades.

Percy was his father’s star recruit.

After leaving school, Percy Le Vaux initially worked as a clerk in Brisbane but then articled for his solicitor brother George in Cairns for two years. After a further three years with a Brisbane law firm, he was admitted as a solicitor in 1902. He returned to Cairns to open his first legal practice. His brother had by then moved south.

Percy Le Vaux

A few months later, Percy took vows of Holy Matrimony.

“Buggies and cabs crowded round the gate of St John’s Church. The first flutter of excitement caused by the arrival of a principal in the important event shortly to happen — the marriage of Miss Blanche Severin, third daughter of our esteemed townsman, Mr Louis Severin, to Mr Percy Le Vaux, solicitor, and a recent arrival in our town.”

A marriage of convenience for both.

Percy was almost 30. Louis Severin was a successful businessman and politician — and much-liked. His daughters were celebrated local beauties and leading lights of the Cairns social scene. Marrying Blanche was a no-brainer for a man who craved business and political success in the town.

And Blanche had few other options. Beautiful, yes. Also intelligent, an elegant dresser, and an in-demand guest at the better social occasions. But Blanche had little education and no work experience. The Severin girls were raised to make desirable wives for men of means — and little else. At 26, if Blanche did not take this opportunity, another might not come along.

Besides, she wanted out of her father’s house. Both Louis Severin’s wives died young, probably worn out by frequent childbirth. Blanche’s older sister took on the maternal role in the family and the pair did not get on. Blanche might barely know Percy Le Vaux, but she wanted a home of her own. It wasn’t as though he was an axe murderer or something! 🤔

After the church ceremony, guests adjourned to the Severin residence for the wedding breakfast. Brabazon Stafford, the local Police Magistrate, gave a speech congratulating the couple and wishing them a life of conjugal bliss. After the wedding feast, guests accompanied the newlyweds down the street to the railway station, where they caught the train to nearby Kuranda for their honeymoon.

But the honeymoon did not last. At least, not the honeymoon between Percy Le Vaux and Police Magistrate Brabazon Stafford. Stafford was a former Sub-Inspector of the Native Police, the near-autonomous Queensland militia charged with policing Aboriginals.

Officially, the force ‘dispersed’ First Nations people suspected of murder, killing stock, thieving or posing any perceived threat to those who now occupied their traditional lands. But ‘dispersed’ was a euphemism. Even newspapers of the day printed the word inside quotation marks. As a correspondent to the Cooktown Courier noted, the orthodox method of dispersal occurred via ‘swift, leaden messengers’ — bullets. Likewise, the Morning Post advised, “the word ‘dispersed’ as applied in some quarters to the blacks, does not convey altogether the same meaning as gathered from Webster’s dictionary.”

The murderous militia conducted widespread, indiscriminate, extrajudicial killings of First Nations people. Crimes, which even Queensland parliamentarians admitted would see other perpetrators hanged. Tens of thousands of First Nations people died during Queensland’s frontier wars.

Stafford and other officers of the Native Police found employment as Police Magistrates upon their retirement. With no legal training and a work history littered with extra-judicial killings, they became heads of the local judiciary in towns across Queensland.

Percy Le Vaux had arrived in Cairns with great expectations. Like his father, he thought very highly of himself and expected the northern town to reward his very presence. His older brother had moved to the town, become a respected lawyer with a thriving practice and been elected to the Cairns Municipal Council.

However, Percy did not feel the love. The citizens of Cairns failed to recognise how lucky they were that he deigned to live among them. The young lawyer came to the northern frontier expecting wealth and position to shower down upon him. Instead, he struggled to afford drinking money. And Percy liked a drink!

He blamed a clique of locals for keeping all the prized positions to themselves. He was not entirely wrong. His own father-in-law spent years on council and served three terms as mayor. A J Draper scored 5 terms as mayor of Cairns, was secretary of the neighbouring Barron Divisional Board, on the Stock Exchange, the hospital board and much more. Lawyer A J P MacDonnell had all the best clients tied up.

Frustrated by his lack of early advancement in the northern town, Percy Le Vaux began to identify the powers-that-be who he believed held him back. Among them, Brabazon Stafford, who frequently found against Percy’s clients. Of course, most of his clients were no-hopers, crims and drunks, but what did that matter?

Peter Lumberg was one of them—for a time, a notorious drunk and no stranger to the lock-up. On one occasion, Percy represented Peter in an action against Constable Baulch, whom Peter accused of stealing his gold watch and chain while Peter was in the cells. They lost the case. However, soon after Baulch was convicted of corrupt activity and dismissed from the force.

That was the problem with Cairns. Nothing was black and white. Well, other than the colour of your skin.

By September 1902, Percy Le Vaux realised he was unlikely to achieve his ambitions in Cairns by playing nice.

He began his campaign against the ruling clique in the police court, sparring with Brabazon Stafford, a pompous and thin-skinned man, unable to let any perceived slight pass him by.

“Is it not a fact that you told people in the town that you would bring the case before Mr Stafford because he would not find against Mr MacDonnell?” Le Vaux asked a witness.

“What’s that?” asked Stafford from the bench, “I want an apology for that at once.”

“I apologise,” muttered Le Vaux.

“I will hear this case no further until I have a proper apology,” said Stafford. “This is altogether too much.”

After an adjournment for lunch, Stafford addressed the Court.

“Mr Le Vaux, I have given your remarks serious consideration and have come to the conclusion that I am not prepared to accept the cursory and half-hearted apology you tendered for the insult you have levelled at this Court. I shall require a more abject apology and a statement from you withdrawing unreservedly the insinuations contained in your remarks before I am prepared to hear from you any further.”

“I made no insinuations,” said Le Vaux, “the witness herself made the statement to me, and I simply asked her the question here.”

On and on, they went — back and forth — in this case and in many others.

Eventually, Le Vaux’s constant niggling reduced Stafford to petty bitching.

“You can always rely upon getting fair play from this Court, Mr Le Vaux; but the Court cannot give you brains.”

A letter writer to the Brisbane Truth shared Le Vaux’s disdain for the magistrate.

“Brabazon Stafford sits on our judicial bench administering justice in a way that would make your blood turn cold. He is very friendly with a local legal practitioner. During the course of a case, this legal light can do no wrong, and he wins most of his cases.

“Lately, however, the beak has had two or three sets back. Le Vaux, a rising young solicitor, only admitted a few months ago, has been taking him by the wool, and the higher court has twice upset the beak’s derision recently.

“It is high time the Queensland Government sacked some of these old fossils who now sit as judges of law. Magistrate Stafford has been here too long. He wants shifting.”

The Brisbane Truth itself then mounted a campaign against Stafford, eventually exposing the indiscretion that dislodged Brabazon Stafford from his prized sinecure in Cairns.

“He is living apart from his family as a bachelor, occupying rooms in the courthouse — one as a sitting room and another as a bedroom. It is extraordinary that a courthouse should be used for such a purpose. The public, having any business with the court, is greatly inconvenienced by Stafford occupying these rooms, and witnesses have to wait in the yard under the boiling sun or tropical rains without any protection whatsoever.

“There is no doubt that there are some queer people in Cairns, and some of them have most dreadful pedigrees.”

Stafford found himself compelled to apply for a transfer. No one cared much that the Police Magistrate made improper use of the government building. What public official didn’t have their snout in the government trough?

But Stafford had lost control of his home to the extent that when his marriage broke down, he moved out of the house, not his wife. Who could trust the magisterial decisions of a man who didn’t even wear the pants in his own home?

The local correspondent for the Brisbane Truth threw his voice behind Le Vaux.

“The clique will endeavour, we suppose, to get rid of young Le Vaux, a lawyer who gives them a terrible lot of annoyance, but we are afraid Le Vaux is too clever for them.

“He is a young man with plenty of ambition, knowledge, and perseverance, which makes it hard for the audacious clique to down him.”

The history of Cairns is white and male. White men made up only a fraction of the town’s population. However, they occupied the government jobs and civic positions. They owned the newspapers. The stories of other races and white women only mattered when they touched on those of white men.

That suited Percy. He was white, and he hated anyone who was not. He raged against any court which found in favour of a coloured man to the detriment of a white. According to Percy, the White Australia policy meant non-whites were always the guilty party — regardless of such petty concerns as sworn evidence.

Again, the Cairns correspondent of the Brisbane Truth found himself in complete agreement with lawyer Le Vaux.

“Cairns is a prosperous, thriving little town, of about 3,500 inhabitants, of whom only about 700 are whites. The remainder are made up of representatives of NEARLY EVERY NATIONALITY under the sun.

“Kanakas, of course, abound, but they form only a portion of the copper-coloured colonists of Cairns. Hindoos, Syrians, Javanese, Eurasians, Afghans, Greeks, Dagoes, Cainese, Phillipinoe, Manilla men, Turks, Chinese, and Japanese swarm in such numbers that their dirty faces and vile-smelling bodies almost darken the landscape and blot out the brightness of the magnificent tropical sun which shines over them.

“The Chinese and the Japanese fairly run the town. The Chows have most of the business places in their hands, and control the bulk of the trade, both internal and external. The Japs are laundrymen and cooks. But there are many Japs who toil not, neither do they spin. To them is reserved the degrading occupation of trafficking and trading in women, by means of which they pander to the lust and vice of the alien and low white population.”

When one of Percy’s clients (white, naturally) lost a case against coloured man, the Brisbane Truth ranted against the decision.

“Shame on such and shame on a State which keeps in its employ magistrates who so far forget the dignity of office as to turn dog on the white population at every opportunity.”

In 1904, Percy Le Vaux tried again to profit from his move north. He stood in the state election as the Labor candidate for Cook, the electorate north of Cairns.

Peter Lumberg no longer drank heavily. He gave his lawyer and drinking buddy’s campaign both moral and financial support.

A popular figure among the pioneer miners of Cook, Peter helped round up considerable votes for Percy. The ever-faithful Brisbane Truth also backed him for the seat.

Not that anyone thought he needed help. The Labor candidate was a shoo-in. Cook electors would vote for no other candidate.

But… they did vote for a non-Labor candidate.

Trying to foist a stranger from Cairns onto the electorate proved a fatal error for Labor. Percy lost the election by two votes. With his subsequent actions, it’s frightening to think that only two votes came between Le Vaux and a seat in the Queensland Parliament.

But something else happened in 1904, something that explained why the Brisbane Truth unfailingly supported Percy Le Vaux and automatically echoed his thoughts.

The Cairns correspondent of the Brisbane Truth, the writer who praised Percy Le Vaux for his “ambition, knowledge and perseverance” and championed the lawyer at every turn, was…

drum roll, please…

Percy Le Vaux!

As 1905 rolled around, Percy le Vaux need to try something new. He hit the local pubs most nights with his drinking mates, including his ‘most intimate friend’, Peter Lumberg.

They made an odd couple, the unkempt old prospector and the urbane young lawyer.

But things would get odder still…

Hubert Durham, gay policeman and the great police cover-up:

The gay scandal QLD Police hushed up for over a century.

1/ The murder

2/ Sandy Gallop

3/ The Essence of the Dear Departed

For the latest LGBTIQA+ Sister Girl and Brother Boy news, entertainment, community stories in Australia, visit qnews.com.au. Check out our latest magazines or find us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube.

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michm-law · 7 months

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G.R. No. 138322 October 2, 2001

GRACE J. GARCIA, a.k.a. GRACE J. GARCIA-RECIO, petitioner, vs. REDERICK A. RECIO, respondents.

FACTS :

Rederick A. Recio, a Filipino, was married to Editha Samson, an Australian citizen, in Malabon, Rizal, on March 1, 1987. They lived together as husband and wife in Australia.

They got divorced and and a divorce decree issued by an Australian Family Court dissoive their marriage.

On June 26, 1992, respondent became an Australian citizen, as shown by a "Certificate of Australian Citizenship"

Petitioner – a Filipina – and respondent were married on January 12, 1994 in Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church in Cabanatuan City.7 In their application for a marriage license, respondent was declared as "single" and "Filipino."

Starting October 22, 1995, petitioner and respondent lived separately without prior judicial dissolution of their marriage. While the two were still in Australia, their conjugal assets were divided on May 16, 1996, in accordance with their Statutory Declarations secured in Australia.

On March 3, 1998, petitioner filed a Complaint for Declaration of Nullity of Marriage, on the ground of bigamy – respondent allegedly had a prior subsisting marriage at the time he married her on January 12, 1994. She claimed that she learned of respondent's marriage to Editha Samson only in November, 1997. Of

In his answer, respondent averred far back as 1993, he had revealed to petitioner his prior marriage and its dissolution. He contended that his first marriage to an Australian citizen had been validly dissolved by a divorce decree obtained in Australian Court in 1989; this, he was legally capacitated to marry petitioner in 1994.

On July 7, 1998 – or about five years after the couple's wedding and while the suit for the declaration of nullity was pending – respondent was able to secure a divorce decree from a family court in Sydney, Australia because the "marriage had irretrievably broken down

Respondent prayed in his Answer that the Complaint be dismissed on the ground that it stated no cause of action. The Office of the Solicitor General agreed with respondent.

The court marked and admitted the documentary evidence of both parties.

After they submitted their respective memoranda, the case was submitted for resolution.

Thereafter, the trial court rendered the assailed Decision and Order.

ISSUES:

(1) whether the divorce between respondent and Editha Samson was proven, and

(2) whether respondent was proven to be legally capacitated to marry petitioner.

RULING:

WHEREFORE, in the interest of orderly procedure and substantial justice, we REMAND the case to the court a quo for the purpose of receiving evidence which conclusively show respondent's legal capacity to marry petitioner; and failing in that, of declaring the parties' marriage void on the ground of bigamy, as above discussed. No costs

A comparison between marriage and divorce, as far as pleading and proof are concerned, can be made. Van Dorn v. Romillo Jr. decrees that "aliens may obtain divorces abroad, which may be recognized in the Philippines, provided they are valid according to their national law."

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maranofamilylawyers · 1 year

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