Australia, April 14 -- New South Wales Land and Environment Court issued text of the following judgement on March 17:
1. This judgment involves an appeal from the Local Court where a law firm sought payment of legal fees from its former client.
2. The plaintiff is Citilawyers Pty Ltd trading as Citilawyers ("Citilawyers") and was represented by B Williams of counsel. The defendant is Con Tomaras (Mr Tomaras). He appeared self-represented at the hearing as he did in the Local Court. The parties relied on a court book comprising of two volumes (Exhibit's A1 and A2). Both Citilawyers and Mr Tomaras relied upon written submissions. In short, Mr Tomaras' submissions agreed with Magistrate Towney's ("the Magistrate") verdict. In essence he soug...