Merits review ... AAT member's unzipped opinions ... Conservative elbows flailing in all directions ... Unrestrained by convention ... Another KC survey for the Apple Isle Bar ... Push by old buffers to trade in their SCs ... Fascination with gilded embroidery ... Theodora reports ... Read more ...
Back in the ring ... Rape on the minister’s couch … Cover-up … Of course, there was a cover-up … Bettina Arndt and the Institute for the Presumption of Bruce Lehrmann’s Innocence … Linda Reynolds needs sympathy and money … Justice Lee’s loose crumbs ... Read on ...
Plus ça change ... Racism and prejudice ... The police and their cultural predilections ... The ABC and its Lattouf problem ... Reprising Allan Ashbolt and Talbot Duckmanton ... Hard-line interest groups and special pleaders still bashing away at Aunty ... Procrustes files ... Read more ...
Celebrations at the Lubyanka ... NSW Supreme Court judges gear up for a big birthday party ... Planned revelries ... Serious reflections ... History by the yards ... Monumental book ... Artworks ... Musicale ... From Miss Ginger Snatch, an associate of judges ... Read more ...
Algorithmic injustices ... Criminal justice in the data age ... The lurking dangers when algorithms are used to dispense justice ... Predicting the pattern of potential offenders ... Anthony Kanaan interviews Dr Tatiana Dancy, author of Artificial Justice ... Read more ...
Hoot ... Hoot ... No win, lots of fees – remembering Copper 7 … Conflicts and compromises ... Law and Social Work get cognate at U.Syd … Judge Felicity – feisty telly star … Wendler’s marmalade – by appointment ... From Justinian's Archive, July 30, 2010 ... Read more ...
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Leverhulme • Tuesday, May 31, 2011 Lord Chancellor's grief over rape law reform ... Boris Johnson on Aristotle, Marilyn Monroe, Scarlett Johansson and Mrs Johnson ... Leverhulme in London on a couple of pollies who tell it like it is
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Path cleared should Nicholas Cowdery want to become a judge ... Chief Magistrate wins pension jackpot ... Tiny amendments with big consequences ... Judges' associate Ginger Snatch reports
Graeme Henson, Nicholas Cowdery Barry Lane • Thursday, May 26, 2011 What, not more selective reporting by The Australian ... This time the economics editor extols the virtues of private prison operator Serco ... Cherry picking prisoners can result in glowing outcomes ... Barry Lane in Melbourne asks, why should the state pay for a private operator to make a profit, when the taxpayer has to pick-up all the tab?
Private prisons, Serco, The Australian Roger Fitch Esq • Saturday, May 21, 2011 Navy SEALs insensitive about court protocol ... Disney moves quickly ... Debate still raging about Osama and the rule of law ... "High Value Detainees ... Unprivileged Belligerents ... Enemy Combatants" and other odd creatures from the make-it-up-as-you-go-along Law of War ... Roger Fitch from the front line in Washington
City Desk • Friday, May 20, 2011 New constitutional reform unit at Uni of Sydney ... Indigenous recognition, the role of state governments, and local government all on the agenda ... Constitutional trogs Bob Carr and George Brandis part of the launch line-up ... Our man with a notebook was there for the ribbon-cutting
Barry Lane • Wednesday, May 18, 2011 Judicial blindfold firmly in place when Vic Appeals fiddled with the sentence of expelled Hells Angel ... When is a prior conviction not a prior conviction? ... Barry Lane investigates
Judges • Wednesday, May 18, 2011 Update ... Baffo bounds onto centre court ... Despite the plaudits, Tom Bathurst remains a mystery man ... An able barrister without much on the record ... The right noises about "access to justice", but who thinks anything interesting will happen? ... Some morsels about NSW's incoming chief justice
Tom Bathurst Goings On ... • Thursday, May 12, 2011 It's winter and the NSW bar 'n' grill gets out the knitting needles and balls of wool for a good old knitathon ... Brian Tamberlin, the O'Barrell government's power man, will provide a welcome boost to the Lawyers Full-Employment Act ... Solicitors who forge documents - it's worth the punt
Brian Tamberlin, Forgery, NSW Bar Association Leverhulme • Monday, May 9, 2011 Leverhulme in London ... At the wedding ... Remembering Gilbert Gray QC ... And Andrew Marr's superinjunction - when journalists muzzle the media
Andrew Marr, Gilbert Gray QC, Superinjunctions Around The Firms • Monday, May 9, 2011 Negotiations have resulted in minor revisions to the proposed Solicitors Conduct Rules ... At least three law societies found the LCA's original "ethical" rules objectionable ... Large law firms wag the dog
Ethics, Law Council of Australia Around The Firms • Wednesday, May 4, 2011 Compensation law firm in High Court fighting compensation claim by former salaried partner ... Harassment and humiliation led to anxiety, depression and agoraphobia ... 30 percent psychological impairment ... Can findings of medical panel be challenged?
Impairment, Maurice Blackburn, Personal injury Judges • Monday, May 2, 2011 Chief Justice of Victoria shunts the silk selection business ... Too busy for this beloved duty ... Dismay abounds as NSW model is in contention
Marilyn Warren, Silk selection, Victorian Bar Roger Fitch Esq • Thursday, April 28, 2011 The Guantánamo files ... Roger Fitch, Our Man in Washington, provides some historical context ... The law of indefinite detention
Guantanamo Stephen Keim • Wednesday, April 27, 2011 The usual response of world leaders and the UN is to sit on their hands in the face of accountability for war crimes ... However, Libya has prompted a different response ... Easy to be brave about values when Gaddafi is the enemy ... Australian Lawyers for Human Rights comments
Human rights Tulkinghorn • Saturday, April 23, 2011 An over abundance of lawyers does not reduce fat cats' fees ... Anti-competitive rules disguised as ethical principles ... Why are conditional fees banned in criminal cases? ... They're not entirely ... Lionel Murphy and Freehills ... Tulkinghorn explores
Conditional fees, Ethics, No win no pay Roger Fitch Esq • Thursday, April 21, 2011 Logjammed judicial vacancies gives the Chamber of Commerce a field day ... Bradley Manning's incarceration ... Nine year Guantanamo internments roll on without a remedy ... Federal Court indictments handed back to the Pentagon ... The anarchy of the Tea Party ... Our Man in Washington reports
Bradley Manning, Tea Party, US Supreme Court Goings On ... • Tuesday, April 19, 2011 Nanny state distress at The Australian ... Defence Association on the warpath ... Bar man leads insurgency against street art ... You can run, but not hide from today's juror ... The cabbie and Keli Lane's missing baby ... Inside sex, uncovered by The Kirby Institute
Court in the Act • Friday, April 15, 2011 Former tax man involved in private rulings' scam wants his trial jury investigated ... Strange blog postings allegedly give glimpse of distracted, snoozing jurors at "work" ... Secrets of the Stubby Holder ... When is there finality?
Bar Talk • Friday, April 15, 2011 Map of Tasmania ... Drama at Kingston Beach Golf Club ... Golfers play through as silk stuck in the rough ... Complaint to club president ... Native hen cull ... Earlier correspondence from Malthouse tax guru unearthed
Percy Lo-Kit Chan • Tuesday, April 12, 2011 Vulture fund litigation ... Issue of Hong Kong's jurisdiction over the Congo (Democratic Republic of) ... Expensive counsel fly in from the UK ... Mountains of cash, Chinese politics and judicial independence of Hong Kong all in play ... Percy Lo-Kit Chan reports
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