Around town ... Punctuation advice from Vic's bar ... Feds throw the book at library marriage ... Treacherous shallows in heterosexual discrimination legislation ... Another scalp in compulsory ticketing regime ... Quick Sandy and the unassisted Tamil ... Hands up for silk in Aotearoa ... Theodora's latest rounds ... Read more ...
Incensed ... Special laws for true believers up in smoke … Extreme unction … Cash splash for prejudice … The two-faced world of Janus Albrechtsen … Stokes, the new Murdoch … Tucker Down Under in relevance rescue mission ... Read on ...
Dark and Stormy times in the US of A ... The MAGA Supreme Court ... Conservative judges flirt with absolute presidential immunity ... A reconfigured Constitution ... Trump's intimidation of witnesses and jurors in NY election fraud case ... Jury deadlocked in Abu Ghraib torture case ... Roger Fitch's Letter from Washington ... Read more ...
Letter from London ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt's letter from Blighty ... Hugh Grant takes the money and leaves the box ... Last minutism ... And suprise round-up for Rwanda-bound refugees ... Read more ...
Did Justice Lee get it wrong? ... More on the omnishambles ... Natural and ordinary meaning of the word "rape" ... Disappearance of the ordinary reasonable reader/viewer ... Graham Hryce comments on arguable appeal points ... Read more ...
Justice Jeff Shaw's bingle ... Supreme Court judge's drink-drive experience ... Cars damaged in narrow Sydney street ... Touch driving ... Missing blood sample ... Equality before the law may not apply to judges ... Judges behind the wheel ... From Justinian's Archive ... November 4, 2004 ... Read more ...
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Goings On ... • Tuesday, September 9, 2014 News from the Street of Shame ... Deutschland marshalling forces ... The Sevens rub tummies ... Eating and talking ... Interviews with Queens' Counsel ... Advocacy skills require being in many courts at once
Barristers, Karyl Nairn, Litigation, Phillip Street, Ron Merkel Tulkinghorn • Tuesday, April 22, 2014 Lawyers and the complexity of litigation ... Delay as a defence tactic ... Access to justice includes preventing access to justice ... Reprising the Flower & Hart saga with starring role by Ian Callinan QC ... Abuse of process ... Queensland CJ declined to intervene ... Tulkinghorn on the case
Around The Firms • Friday, May 24, 2013 QC drafts letter for Allens, which makes "thinly veiled" threat to Vic CJ ... "Grossly improper" attempt to influence the court ... Full throttle grovel
Allens, Litigation, Marilyn Warren, Rodney Garratt Tulkinghorn • Monday, November 5, 2012 Tulkinghorn on competing civil litigation regimes ... The obstacle course regime involves truth-obscuring complexity and requires lots of money ... The shallow pockets version offers tribunals that seek to skip complexity ... The more obstacles, the more lawyers are "worth"
Complexity, Litigation Court in the Act • Friday, September 28, 2012 Litigation marathon … Brunswick lawyer out of time for umpteenth review of costs assessment … Ballooning costs for small time motor repair case … More from the Katzenjammer Kids … Has the spillage of ink been quelled?
Bar Talk • Thursday, May 3, 2012 Advocates immunity against suits in negligence alive and kicking ... Deficient pleadings prevented exploration by Court of Appeal of a possible qualification to the immunity ... Family law settlement dispute in Victoria also quelled
Court in the Act • Thursday, April 5, 2012 Six month hearing in the sex harassment court … Commonwealth Bank stumps up a fortune to defend itself and a former employee in the Vivienne Dye case … Landscape littered with exhausted lawyers … Lure of the siren … Devastating judgment
Litigation, Sexual harassment, Vivienne Dye City Desk • Monday, February 20, 2012 Lawyers Full-Employment Act revs-up as Rinehart rides to town … 11 Wentworth snaffles the Iron Lady's work … Five months of suppression orders secured by rosters of silks … Ferocious litigation ramped-up by overflowing coffers
Gina Rinehart, Litigation, Suppression orders, Trust deed Around The Firms • Thursday, May 15, 2003 Horrible lawyer stories from Yarraside ... A case of feuding partners ... More heat than light ... Costs of fight far outweigh amount in dispute ... From Justinian's treasure-trove of stories, May 15, 2003
Around The Firms • Thursday, September 26, 2002 Risky litigation ... Slater & Gordon acts for Solomon Island landowners in treacherous case against Ross Mining ... Firm later "regrets ever having become involved in the proceedings" ... Earlier adventures of Nick Styant-Browne ... Champerty and maintenance ... From Justinian's archive, September 2002
Déjà Vu, Litigation, Slater & Gordon, Solomon Islands