Holiday Doodles

My year at the court has finished. This is is bad news for fans of legal cartoons - but good news for those sick of lawyers, barristers and judges.

Today's topic: noses. Because, as they say, nobody knows what the nose knows because the nose knows what nobody knows.

Croc SC

Back by popular demand, it's the crocodile barrister.

The Silly Season

It's my work Christmas party today, so I was inspired to draw some holiday themed cartoons.

View from the bench

Just a quick drawing from court the other day. For all those who were wondering, this is what court looks like from the Tipstaff's position...

Some more recent cartoons

Just a couple of Friday cartoons. Have a good weekend!

Full House - Defendants over Plaintiffs

Running the Sergeant Shulz defence

Some recent cartoons

Hello! I've been very slack I know, but here are some recent cartoons from court - more than few of which star animals (what can I say, animals are funny!)

Misleading or deceptive conduct, in trade or commerce, in contravention of s 18 of the Australian Consumer Law

Mr Shark SC smells blood

Swapping war stories on Phillip St

A very thirsty witness (and an irate tipstaff)

Miscellaneous legal cartoons October-November

Taking a break from the Mega-Litigation series, here are some cartoons from around the courts and legal circles I drew over the last couple of weeks.



High Court Public School

"Commissioner prowls, then pounces without a thought for mercy", SMH, 2/11/2012



The Curious Case of the Stolen McCaws (based on a true story from the Supreme Court this week!)

Mega-litigation (5)

Also known as... the Third Further Amended Statement of Cartoon

The trial begins in earnest and the plaintiff is called to give evidence. He sits quietly in the box as senior counsel vehemently argue a whirr of interlocutory motions, juniors look on wistfully, process servers deliver boxes, court reporters tap away at short-hand machines and tipstaves scurry around filling glasses of water.

The Plaintiff gets his "Day In Court"

Cartoon Brief

I stumbled across this great (and true) story the other day about Bob Kohn and the "Cartoon Brief". Kohn is the chairman of a company called RoyaltyShare Inc and a expert in electronic licencing law. A couple of months ago he asked to provide the court with submissions as an amicus curiae ("friend of the court" for those without a legal/latin background) in the matter of United States of America v Apple; an anti-trust case brought by the Department of Justice against Apple and five other publishers who allegedly colluded to set prices for e-books. The judge (District Court Judge Cote) gave him leave, but limited his submissions to 5 pages. Kohn, who had intended to file a detailed 25 page brief, instead submitted a simplified version of his argument... in the form of a cartoon. 

The drawings are pretty good - and his argument is quite persuasive. Basically he is saying that one-off market collusion is not always against consumer's interests, and that you must weigh the bad effects of the collusion against the pro-competitive benefits of the agreement. I don't know much about competition law (especially US anti-trust law), but it sounds right to me. 

I wonder if cartoon submissions would work before any Supreme Court judges in NSW? They certainly do seem to hate long submissions...

You can find the whole brief here at the American Bar Association Journal website: http://www.abajournal.com/files/AppleAmicusBrief.pdf

Mega-litigation (4)

Also known as.... The Second Further Amended Statement of Cartoon

The Mega-Litigaant



The Mega-Litigation Judge


And also, a small cartoon to celebrate Australia's appointment to the UN Security Council:

Australia gets a seat at the Big Boy's table

Mega-litigation (3)

Also known as... Further Amended Statement of Cartoon

The parties assemble...

Plaintiffs

Defendants

Mega-litigation (2)

Also known as: the amended statement of cartoon.

Some light pre-trial reading

The case is about to start...

Mega-litigation

Updates from the 28 week trial (week 5!)

Some Interstate Visitors in the Supreme Court of NSW

Things take an unexpected turn

Loosening up

Sorry for the delay! I've been a little out of inspiration (blame a certain piece of long-running bank litigation...). So I've decided to get myself going again by doing a bit of a loosening up exercise. I just drew whatever came to mind, and came up with this:

Oh, and after reading about Murdoch's twitter input in the US election, I drew this:

UN and legal friends

Good morning! Nice and early post today. Here are a couple of drawings I did yesterday. One UN related, the other a bit of a legal joke.

At the UN

Learned Friends

A week's backlog of drawings

Its been over a week since my last post. I'm very sorry! Below are a mixed bag of sketches from the past week...

Rome

The Adventures of C-Bass, Part 3

A porcine junior junior barrister



A sqwauking barrister



C-Bass Part 2 (and others)

The return of C-Bass:

And, in the news:

Film review

And finally, just comparing an older cartoon with reality. Was I right or was I right? (on that note, I'll be sitting on the same case for the rest of my time at the court... so expect little inspiration for cartoons from work from now on)

 

History of Rome cartoons

As many of you may know, I have recently been addicted to a podcast about the History of Rome by a guy called Mike Duncan. It's great and I really can't recommend it enough. You can find it here: http://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/

Anyway, in tribute to the podcast, I am doing a series of Rome based cartoons. Hope you enjoy.

Look for some (possibly) familiar faces in this one

Gina's back...

... in court.

Gina Rinehart invites children to claim their share of the family trust

The Adventures of C-Bass (plus a day in court)

Introducing C-Bass...

And, a day in court 7F:

Q: Why is the Supreme Court a fun place to work?
A: Because we have lots of parties.

Tippies Conference - 7 September 2012

A few drawings from the Tippies Conference on Friday. Thanks to Ed for the inspiration for many of these, and thanks to Sienna for organising the conference!

Keith

Lessons from Keith #1

Lessons from Keith #2

Ethics lesson

Lawyers are the gatekeepers

Pave your own way

The Adventures of C-Bass, Part 1 (note: the original  C-Bass did not actually make it to the pub...)