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The Secret Diaries of the Hon. I.D.F. Callinan AC QC - part three ... Justice Callinan, in the latest instalment from his diary, reveals the careful behind-the-scenes planning for a special event to mark the High Court’s official farewell of Michael McHugh ... From Justinian's archive, August 2005 ... Read more ...
Junior Junior writes about the peculiar life of a baby barrister. From crawling to early, tottering steps. Read Junior Junior's blog ...
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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
Around the Firms • Wednesday, May 1, 2013 Big law shop drops its insistence on having Allan Myers for the Chris Dale case ... Appeal ditched ... No more mucking around
Judges • Tuesday, April 30, 2013 Touchy war of words between the upper and lower stratas of the federal judiciary ... Raphael v Perram; Perram v Raphael ... It’s a matter of tone ... Alix Piatek reports
Court in the Act • Monday, April 29, 2013 Compo lawyers will be paining the town red ... NSW Court of Appeal wipes out 25 percent of the government's proposed savings from the 2012 workers comp reforms ... Lump sums are back - at the old rate
Bar Talk • Wednesday, April 24, 2013 Crown keeping a tight rein on barrister expenses in NSW ... Funding for the bar virtually unchanged for two-and-a-half years ... Top fee last year for Crown Solicitor's civil work was $1,054,501.25 ... Full list of fees paid ... Another scoop from Justinian
