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 ... • Tuesday, September 28, 2010 New-old stuff from Spiggsy Spigelman CJ ... The four categories of judicial personalities ... Introducing the Vincent Index ... Soapy Brandis conjures some constitutional thoughts
Tulkinghorn • Friday, September 24, 2010 There is more litigant satisfaction in Baden-Württemberg than in New South Wales ... Cases are conducted more quickly and at less cost ... The Marfording report on civil litigation picks-up where the ALRC failed to take off ... Tulkinghorn reports
Goings On ... • Monday, September 20, 2010 Map of Tasmania ... Huge damages threatened against police for refusal to allow famous Tasmanian barrister to shoot animals from his Porsche ... Excrement on golf course fairways ... Native hens don't scare easily - they will need to be shot
Barristers, Map of Tasmania, Wildlife Goings On ... • Thursday, September 16, 2010 The Ron Cahill affair had Canberra spellbound ... Chief Magistrate in strife over suggestions he meddled in a case involving a friend ... DPP drops the investigation ... Relief that Rapid Ron is in the clear and that he's off the bench
Chief Magistrate Ron Cahill Leverhulme • Monday, September 13, 2010 Being tortured by your students - the trials of trial advocacy instructors ... Lessons of Sir Patrick Hastings - counsel should rely on memory not notes ... Better to observe the witnesses ... "Chris," she cried with her last breath ... London Calling with Leverhulme
Roger Fitch Esq • Monday, September 13, 2010 State Department reports to UN on human rights in the USA ... Surprisingly few US civilians killed overseas by terrorists last year ... Of all the defendants before Military Commissions, only one has been charged with an actual war crime
Law of war Goings On ... • Thursday, September 9, 2010 A defamation action by three former employees of Keddies against the law firm has hit a snag ... McClintock withdraws after Keddies' partners object ... Trial delayed ... No senior barristers available ... Law firm overcharging to be probed in libel trial
Defamation, professional conduct Judges • Wednesday, September 8, 2010 Don't mess with the judge's bags ... PNG airport search goes wrong ... Restraining order on airport security man who wanted to check senior judge's "cargo" ... Rule of law in action
Stephen Keim • Monday, September 6, 2010 Psychological fallout from US supermax detention comes under gaze of the ECHR ... Long arm of the European Convention stretches to the isolation ward of US justice ... Stephen Keim and Katherine McGree review the Babar Ahmad case
Tulkinghorn • Friday, September 3, 2010 Michael Kirby swaps horses on our justice system ... When it operates, it operates very well ... How often might that be? ... Former High Court judge says there are not enough lawyers in politics ... Tulkinghorn thinks Kirby might have lost it
Evan Whitton • Wednesday, September 1, 2010 The lies of war ... Andrew Wilkie and Afghanistan ... Dickie Pratt and the great box cartel heist ... Hiding evidence from everybody ... Michael Wilding gives dud journalism a whack ... Alf Parsons, diplomat, passes ... Evan Whitton observes
Judges • Tuesday, August 31, 2010 From across the ditch comes the sulphurous whiffs of judicial impropriety ... New Zealand appeal judge's conflict of interest ... Justice Bill Wilson failed to give full, open disclose about his financial involvement with senior counsel for litigant ... Traffic of distressing emails
Apprehended bias, Conflict of interest Stephen Keim • Monday, August 30, 2010 Queensland's Crime and Misconduct Commission lays waste to police investigation of Cameron Doomadgee's death in custody ... The smell of cover-up ... The roar of the police union ... Ghosts of Fitzgerald ... Stephen Keim and Alex McKean report
Polly Peck • Wednesday, August 25, 2010 REVISED ... Election outcome ... Major parties bereft of ideas and inspiration ... Independents fill the void ... Will the Governor General draw constitutional inspiration from Jolly John Kerr? ... Polly Peck's special insights
Tulkinghorn • Friday, August 20, 2010 Clients can't be smelt, even when they pong ... The GFC brought on with the valuable assistance of commercial lawyers ... They may not understand the documents ... But they understand how to bill ... Tulkinghorn on involuntary inertial disorder
GFC, commercial lawyers Barry Lane • Friday, August 20, 2010 Secret surveillance of workers claiming compo is about as useful as ASIO spying on the Aarons family ... The WorkCover industry is hooked on spooking ... Barry Lane files from Melbourne
Sir Terence O'Rort • Wednesday, August 18, 2010 Berna Collier is not travelling well at the Federal Court ... A full court bollocking is the latest in a lengthing list of unhappinesses ... Is it fair? ... Sir Terence O'Rort reports
Berna Collier, Federal Court Bar Talk • Monday, August 16, 2010 One hundred and twenty eight hopefuls have their hands up for the silk gown in the NSW bar's annual selection process ... New protocols to be tested ... Ambition, ego, status and money all jostling for a rails position ... We have the names
Senior Counsel selection Roger Fitch Esq • Monday, August 16, 2010 Bush hacks winning the war of attrition as Democrats bail out of the DoJ ... Khadr case shaping-up to set a dangerous precedent - it's a war crime to shoot at an American soldier ... Roger Fitch reports from Washington
War crimes Deja Vu • Thursday, August 12, 2010 From Justinian's archive ... It's August 12, 2010, nine days before the federal election ... Soapy Brandis is being hosted at Beppis by a bevvy of Sydney silks ... Law 'n' Justice policies thin on the ground ... Strange issues emerge in the campaign for Wentworth ... Here we go again ... Insight into the barrenness of the upcoming 2013 poll
George Brandis, Law and justice, Politics, Wentworth