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Junior Junior writes about the peculiar life of a baby barrister. From crawling to early, tottering steps. Read Junior Junior's blog ...
Uncorking vintage Justinian
The man who replaced Barwick ... It's early 1981 and the government has announced that Sir Harry Gibbs will replace Sir Garfield Barwick as chief justice of the High Court ... While Queenslanders might be familiar with Gibbs, few others knew much about him ... In March 1981 Justinian filled-in some of the gaps and made some fearless predictions ... From our Déjà Vu department ... Read on
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Junior Junior • Monday, May 21, 2012 Wax and wane ... Junior Junior, quite suddenly, is flat out (like a lizard drinking) ... The work, the money, the intoxication ... Will it come to an end? ... Can peaks and troughs in work flow ever be eradicated? ... Learning to love them and leave them
Artemus Jones • Friday, May 18, 2012 Tom Bathurst, chief justice of NSW, is punished for speaking the truth ... In the face of an outpouring of indignation from the usual suspects he modified his "mindless drones" criticism of large law factories ... Artemus Jones, who is not unfamiliar with dronery, leaps to the CJ's defence
Elsewhere • Thursday, May 10, 2012 The High Court comprehensively knocks for six the NSW Court of Appeal's most peculiar decision in the James Hardie directors' case ... Duties of disclosure could not be more clear, or more necessary ... from Professor Michael Adams, dean of the law school at the University of Western Sydney ... Is Twiggy Forrest next?
Junior Junior • Friday, May 4, 2012 Money woes for Junior Junior ... When will she be paid? ... Generating the appearance of busyness is so exhausting ... Importance of keeping the phone connected
Judge Docket • Friday, April 27, 2012 Costs hell awaits the unprepared lawyer in Britain's new civil litigation landscape ... Judge Docket spells it out to Mr Fees ... BMWs in danger of repossession ... Fallout from the Jackson reforms
Judge Docket • Wednesday, April 18, 2012 Lord Justice Jackson's civil litigation reforms are beginning to bite ... Active judicial management of disclosure and hearings ... Horror of horrors - case budgets and cost controls ... Judge Docket reports from Blighty
Junior Junior • Monday, April 16, 2012 The Procrastination Equation by Piers Steel is an excellent distraction ... Junior Junior finds ways of putting off fee paying work right to the last minute ... Deadlines ... Smedlines
Student-at-Large • Sunday, March 25, 2012 A student writes ... The plight of women in the law debated in class ... St Paul's College ra-ras now a minority ... How things have changed ... Since Rake and Crownies summer clerkships at the ODPP are the hottest items in town
Junior Junior • Wednesday, March 21, 2012 Junior Junior learns an invaluable lesson ... For entirely self-interested reasons it pays to treat bored witnesses with kindness ... Particularly when they are ignored by lawyers who need their evidence
Mistaken evidence, Personal injury, Witnesses Theodora • Thursday, March 8, 2012 Is the Finkelstein Report as dangerous as the media imagines? ... A properly run News Media Council could keep journalists' dark arts in-check ... Only an arrogent media would reject the Fink's recommendations out-of-hand
Junior Junior • Tuesday, February 28, 2012 Junior Junior sticks it to an older male barrister ... Ogling attractive women in the lift ... How a fledgling female barrister should respond to male barrister's swooning remarks directed at another women ... Etiquette
Artemus Jones • Tuesday, February 21, 2012 The Age ordered to cough-up journalists sources for Joel Fitzgibbon exposé ... Tidal wave of cases dismantling free speech ... Liu v The Age ranks as one of our most important constitutional free speech cases ... The newspaper must fight on ... Artemus Jones on the junking of the newspaper rule
Defamation, Free speech, Journalists sources Theodora • Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Updated on Wednesday, February 15, 2012 by
Justinian
Phone hacking and intercepts - the early days ... Intercepted phone conversation between Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise ends-up in New Idea ... Australian media's bugging and hacking heritage ... (corrected)
New Idea, Nicole Kidman, Phone hacking, Rupert Murdoch Neil Watt • Monday, February 13, 2012 New national solicitors' conduct rules dilute traditional approach to lawyers giving evidence in court for their clients ... Rules that will lead solicitors down the garden path ... Ethical eclipse ... From Neil Watt at the ethics desk
Junior Junior • Friday, February 10, 2012 Ruthless competition at the readers' bar ... Emptiness and despair ... Funds dry up ... Then, as if by magic, a crumb falls from the table and everything is brilliant ... Junior Junior on how January turned into February
