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Dr Criminale • Thursday, May 23, 2013 The trials and tribulations of law school lecturing ... Achievers, plodders and bottom dwellers ... University entry requirements lowered - a boon for bottom-dwellers ... Ten percent take up 25 percent of the time and effort ... Senior law lecturer Dr Criminale takes to his keyboard and blogs
Goings On ... • Tuesday, May 21, 2013 Dyson Heydon's top 10 books of the nineteenth century … From Memoires d'Outre Tombe to The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian … Dyse's faves from a golden time
Tulkinghorn • Monday, May 20, 2013 The personal injury racket ... The no win, no fee racket ... The after-the-event insurance racket ... The unauthorised practice of law racket ... Tulkinghorn examines the meaty bone and its associated lawyer rackets
Max Taylor • Monday, May 20, 2013 New South Wales' new bail legislation ... Presumption against bail still there in all but name ... Juveniles get one extra chance to reapply ... In last 30 years the proportion of the prison population on remand has doubled ... Legislation designed to please the police ... Former magistrate Max Taylor reports
Court in the Act • Saturday, May 18, 2013 Barrister and solicitor were parties to secret recording of mobile phone conversation while a trial was in progress ... Impropriety ... Application to tender recording rejected ... Breach of Surveillance Devices Act and Evidence Act ... Alix Piatek reports
Bar Talk • Wednesday, May 15, 2013 Qld gazettes arrangements for converting from senior counsel to queen's counsel ... Marketing ploy in a desperately needy climate ... Melbourne SC still pressing for the queen's counsel option while fighting off attacks on the "imponderables" of selection ... Warning: original notion of the QC had little to do with higher fees
City Desk • Friday, May 10, 2013 Scoop ... Boning knife taken to NSW Legal Aid ... No money for Local Court trials, unless defendants face the "real possibility" of a gaol sentence ... Letter from director of the criminal law division ... Challenges in "managing the reaction from the bench" ... Massive resources for the coppers produces squeeze lower down the food chain
Roger Fitch Esq • Wednesday, May 8, 2013 US government has its very own radical Islam website ... Judge overrules some of the FBI's denial of rights to Boston bombing suspect ... Canadian to appeal Guantánamo conviction ... Guilty plea to invalid charges ... Pentagon citing Civil War precedents in Bradley Manning stitch-up ... From Roger Fitch, Our Man in Washington
Wendler on Wine • Wednesday, May 8, 2013 The frustrations of a pinot drinker ... With so many clones of the pinot vine, performance varies greatly ... "Fickle and troublesome" ... Justinian's wine correspondent Gabriel Wendler finds some complex and brooding pinots among Craggy Range's Te Muna Road selection ... Taste-up at Chiswick Gardens
Goings On ... • Friday, May 3, 2013 Qld AG insists there's no rape of teenagers in Pineapple Land jails ... Silk's daily rate for the crown ... Canberra firm fails in early round to squelch picketing client's Mum ... Justice Bromberg's vital statistics
Goings On ... • Friday, May 3, 2013 The moving and shaking of a Law Society high-flyer … The Armidale connection … The University of New England and living in the shadow of Dickie Torbay
