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Junior Junior writes about the peculiar life of a baby barrister. From crawling to early, tottering steps. Read Junior Junior's blog ...
Uncorking vintage Justinian
Major moments in Murphy case ... For a large chunk of the time Lionel Murphy was a High Court judge (February 1975 to October 1986) he was hanging out with magistrates and District Court judges ... Morgan Ryan case of pressing importance ... "Now what about my little mate?" ... From Justinian's Déjà Vu department ... March 1985 ... Read on
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Judges • Friday, June 1, 2012 NSW Chief Madge, Judge Graeme Henson, lets fly at AG bureaucrats ... Hard-pressed beaks ... Gripes about conditions ... Magistrates want the same perks as judges ... Furious response to newspaper article ... Department does nothing to fix court problems ... Lorenzo Glanfield seriously rebuked
Hellfire Club • Thursday, May 31, 2012 Chin wag … Solicitor falls foul of just about every vice in the book … Rudeness, overcharging, over servicing, false allegations, trust account diddles … Stipes recommend strike-off for solicitor who misled magistrate and told security guard "to go back to where he came from" ... Peta Smith reports from ringside
Yarraside Yarns • Wednesday, May 30, 2012 Diddums doesn't do well ... Schools become an exciting battleground as parents sue ... Racial profiling as coppers frisk African teens for weapons ... Ted's prison building boom goes bust ... Sylvia Varnham O'Regan's Yarraside Yarns
William Collins • Tuesday, May 29, 2012 An infestation of weasel words ... Parliamentary draftsperson falls foul of post-modern abstractions ... Where was George Orwell when the Transport Integration Act was being drafted? ... From Yarraside, William Collins opines
Abel Magwitch • Tuesday, May 29, 2012 Change is in the air ... Abel Magwitch contemplates the forthcoming reconfiguration of the High Court ... A plea that the NSW and Victorian bars not be overlooked ... Doctrinal questions in play just as Gummow and Heydon are needed
Around the Firms • Sunday, May 27, 2012 Another case of Keddies overcharging - this time by $150,000 ... Keddies' case collapses in Court of Appeal ... Indemnity costs at trial and on appeal ... Flailing about as costs and damages mount in ongoing breach of contract saga ... Splitski at Brydens
Goings On ... • Wednesday, May 23, 2012 Forget Washington, forget London - the Holy See is the gem in the diplomatic crown ... Einfeld finds a way back into our hearts ... ADT rebukes CCA over bullied barrister ... Murky outline of judicial complaints regime for federal judges
Junior Junior • Monday, May 21, 2012 Wax and wane ... Junior Junior, quite suddenly, is flat out (like a lizard drinking) ... The work, the money, the intoxication ... Will it come to an end? ... Can peaks and troughs in work flow ever be eradicated? ... Learning to love them and leave them
Artemus Jones • Friday, May 18, 2012 Tom Bathurst, chief justice of NSW, is punished for speaking the truth ... In the face of an outpouring of indignation from the usual suspects he modified his "mindless drones" criticism of large law factories ... Artemus Jones, who is not unfamiliar with dronery, leaps to the CJ's defence
Around the Firms • Wednesday, May 16, 2012 Build-up of verdicts in District Court for overcharging ... Keddies Three put on affidavits as to how poor they are ... Application for time payment withdrawn as prospect of cross-examination looms
Tulkinghorn • Tuesday, May 15, 2012 The "rule of law" drum is repeatedly beaten as a way of reinforcing the great importance of lawyers and judges ... Yet, if the going got tough would lawyers, at risk to themselves, really stand-up for the rule of law? ... Or would they look the other way if faced with tyranny? ... Tulkinghorn provides an answer
