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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Goings On ... • Friday, December 3, 2010 Shoot that lamb chop ... How not to run a trial with a self-represented accused ... Closed court for dishonest lawyer ... Theodora explores the map of Tasmania
Justice Tennent, Stephen Estcourt Barry Lane • Wednesday, December 1, 2010 The era of open media and leaks of state secrets confronts courts and governments ... No solution in sight ... Barry Lane says its best to lie back and surrender
Leverhulme • Thursday, November 25, 2010 Poms are delighted the Euro's in trouble ... A rumpled Lord Chancellor gets stuck into legal aid and prisons ... Kenneth Clarke says there's no direct connection between an increased prison population and falling crime rates ... Not bad for a Tory ... Leverhulme files from Blighty
Roger Fitch Esq • Thursday, November 18, 2010 A Republican majority in the House likely to end in usual bout of resentment for the GOP ... Election threw up a few crooks and charlatans ... An American soldier can shoot in the battlefield, but it's a war crime if someone shoots back ... Review into whether charges against David Hicks were defective ... Wheels fell off Ghailani trial in Manhattan because the CIA tortured the accused ... Roger Fitch reports from Washington
Congress, Guantanamo, Law of war Goings On ... • Thursday, November 11, 2010 Cigarette smoking, champagne swigging Mary Gaudron brought much needed gusto and bluntness to the phlegmatic males who inhabited the High Court ... Sir Anthony Mason was one of those males and this week he launched a biography of Gaudron by the Canberra lawyer Pamela Burton - From Moree to Mabo ... Theodora reports
Mary Gaudron, Sir Anthony Mason Tulkinghorn • Thursday, November 11, 2010 J.J. Spigelman says it's easy for judges to make the law fit the result they want ... Plenty of froufrou can be conjured to enhance the judicial image ... Tulkinghorn opines on the secret lives of judges ... The curtain opens for a minute
Around The Firms • Wednesday, November 10, 2010 Mediation to commence in the sexual harassment case brought by solicitor Bridgette Styles against the big law shop Clayton Utz
Defamation, Sexual harassment Judges • Wednesday, November 10, 2010 Justice Bill Wilson saved himself and the NZ judiciary further embarrassment when last month he resigned from the Supreme Court ... On the way out he dumped the country's chief justice Dame Sian Elias in the horse merde
Conflict of interest Percy Lo-Kit Chan • Tuesday, November 9, 2010 Murder by milkshake ... Foreign counsel to the fore in retrial of rich banker's wife for murder of control freak husband ... Overseas barristers can help develop the local bar - but only in moderation ... Percy Lo-Kit Chan reports from Hong Kong
Leverhulme • Thursday, November 4, 2010 Health & safety music hall jokes under review ... "Ginger Rodent" insult from former equality priestess ... Lady Dorothy's mother ... Holed-up in the Hunting Tower at Chatsworth ... London Calling
Chatsworth, Health and safety Goings On ... • Wednesday, November 3, 2010 Uproar in Martin Place as a third of 15 Wardell peels off ... ACCC wants to know more about clerks for Vic barristers ... French CJ, the lady in green and Grecian 2000 on display at the Art Gallery of NSW ... Theodora reports
Percy Lo-Kit Chan • Sunday, October 31, 2010 Percy is waiting to try a dish of ostrich ... Sir Anthony Mason is the bright star of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal ... The most prolific of the non-permanent judges
Stephen Keim • Sunday, October 31, 2010 Boy soldier Omar Khadr pleads guilty before Guantanamo Military Commission ... Plea deal saves the US the embarrassment of conducting the "trial" of a boy soldier ... Stephen Keim and Katherine McGree report
Law of war Roger Fitch Esq • Wednesday, October 27, 2010 New Supreme Court term … Political gold rush flows from Citizens United … Tea Party nutters … Government plan to assassinate US citizen goes to court … Torture case against Boeing subsidiary overturned ... Roger Fitch files from Washington
Law of war, Political funding, State secrets Barry Lane • Monday, October 25, 2010 Vic Parliament rides to the rescue to save the VWA's bacon ... No more issue estoppels for you ... Juries to be mushroomed ... Barry Lane reports on the latest from accident compo world
Accident Compensation Evan Whitton • Friday, October 22, 2010 Evan Whitton advises on how to run a commission of inquiry ... Special prosecutor absolutely essential ... Voices from the past - Mike Ahern and Doug Drummond ... Lord Widgery's cover-up ... Saville The Stonecutter
Commissions of inquiry Pillsbury Flom • Friday, October 22, 2010 The Pledge ... Blogging judges ... Three strikes ... And other lunacies of the US justice system ... Pillsbury Flom reports
Judges, Judicial system Judges • Thursday, October 21, 2010 Much ado stirred by Sydney Morning Herald's series on judges at work and play ... On the record and unexpurgated ... How will we ever shut them up now?
Bar Talk • Tuesday, October 19, 2010 NSW silk selection reforms have not gone far enough, says Alexander Street SC ... The process still needs fundamental reform ... Just when the bar council was patting itself on the back for a job well done, along comes a fresh broadside from an insider
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