Cloudy conditions at the NSW Law Society
Ethics committee purged by incoming Law Soc prez ... New guidelines on cloud computing and outsourcing not adopted ... Distressed email
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 ...
"A Legal Braveheart who is a defender of the rule of law. Sofronoff had the courage to expose legal misadventure of the sort that must never be condoned. He deserves the nation's gratitude."
Rule of Law Institute plugging a forthcoming lecture by Walter Sofronoff with a quote from an editorial in The Australian. April 19, 2024 ... Read more flatulence ...
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 ...
Ethics committee purged by incoming Law Soc prez ... New guidelines on cloud computing and outsourcing not adopted ... Distressed email
The new conduct rules for solicitors appear to be more notional than national ... Large Law Firm Group sets the tone ... It's all about what we can get away with ... The "right thing to do" went missing in action ... Neil Watt, who sat on the LCA's ethics committee, experienced a dashing of expectations
News Ltd explains its policies on entrapment, surveillance and private investigators ... Instructive stuff ... The media world lurches off its axis as Rupert & Co are unable to manage the flood of arrests, resignations and on-going investigations .. Late night viewing as a Commons committee presses for answers
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
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
Economics and criminal defence lawyering ... The creation of a GETGO system ... Ethical rules and the twiddly bits ... Prosecutors are meant to stand still, while the other side does all the shooting ... How do I know whether I am guilty or not until I have seen the evidence? (Irish joke)
The independent legal profession at work ... Large law firms push through flawed conduct rules for solicitors ... Special provisions for conflicts of interest and referral fees ... "Informed consent" downgraded
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