Bennett birched by WA Bureau de Spank ... Perth big shot ... Professional misconduct ... Disclosure of privileged information ... Guardianship proceedings ... Breach of orders ... Conscious disregard of the law ... Consideration of recklessness ... Breach of Harman obligation ... Anthony Kanaan reports ... 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 ...
Other Voices, Other Rooms ... Hack attack on barrister ... Heavy-handed Jewish lobby calling the shots ... No support from chambers ... Eerie silence from professional bodies about Gaza atrocities ... Latest cancellations ... Free speech in a spin ... From our Editorial Board ... Read more ...
Extraterritoriality ... Filing a defamation case in WA without a concerns notice ... Hearing in Queensland ... The not so uniform defamatorium ... Justice Peter Applegarth to the rescue ... 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 ...
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 ...
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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Critics' Corner • Wednesday, December 11, 2019 Peter Lyons book Advocacy - A Practical Guide ... Reviewed by Paul Hardman ... Helping judges come to the right decision ... Loved by Lord Pannick ... Techniques from the leading lights ... Presentation skills ... Preparation ... From the author of the best-selling Not One Jot
Critics' Corner, Miss Lumière • Wednesday, November 27, 2019 Official Secrets ... Whistleblowing at its finest ... The GCHQ operative who got a memo from the NSA into the hands of The Observer ... The right to know about the invasion of Iraq and its illegality ... Coalition of the Willing and the missing weapons of mass destruction ... Miss Lumière enjoys a high-minded leak in the public interest
Film review Critics' Corner, Miss Lumière • Tuesday, November 12, 2019 Pedro Almodóvar and Antonio Banderas at their peak ... Pain and Glory reviewed by Miss Lumière ... Life, loves, memories, and loss ... An artist's reckoning of a life lived
Film review Critics' Corner, Miss Lumière • Friday, October 25, 2019 Senator Feinstein and her torture report starring dogged Daniel Jones ... Huckster psychologists and crook lawyers combine to trash the Geneva Conventions and civilised standards ... The battle to avoid redactions ... No accountability ... The Senate v the CIA ... Miss Lumière reviews The Report
Film review Profile • Saturday, October 19, 2019 At the Feminist Legal Clinic, Gudrun Willcocks meets Anna Kerr, a different kind of lawyer ... Matriarchy takes on the patriarchy ... Wages for wives would see a reduction in domestic violence ... The outsider working on the inside ... Discrimination and motherhood ... A bandaid service at the Family Court
Family Court, Feminist Legal Clinic, Legal Aid, Women Critics' Corner, Miss Lumière • Friday, October 4, 2019 The brutality of the drug business in Columbia ... From the directors who brought us Embrace of the Serpent comes Birds of Passage ... America, the greedy satan ... Complex codes of honour ... Sumptuous and gripping ... Peace and war ... Miss Lumière reviews the spectacle
Film review Critics' Corner, Miss Lumière • Tuesday, September 24, 2019 Colonial Tasmania ... Jennifer Kent's new film takes us deep into our dark past ... Fearless Irish servant girl teams up with Aboriginal boy to hunt down their tormentors ... Our violent history revealed ... As our reviewer Miss Lumière discovers - there will be blood
Film review, Map of Tasmania, Van Diemen's Land Critics' Corner, Miss Lumière • Wednesday, August 14, 2019 Palm Beach, directed by Rachel Ward and starring the usual suspects ... Sponsored by the NSW government, so you know what to expect ... The stars phone it in ... Miss Lumière hacks the celluloid to pieces
Film review Judges • Monday, July 29, 2019 Former NSW defamation judge and chief judge at common law dies at age 84 ... The List with Socratic case management ... Defamation exotica ... Refinement of pleadings, perhaps over-refinement ... Prodigious worker ... International criminal law ... UN criminal tribunals for Yugoslavia and Rwanda ... A league of his own ... Tributes from Graham Hryce, David Rolph, Justice Mark Ierace and Judge Judith Gibson
Supreme Court NSW On the Couch • Wednesday, July 24, 2019 Veteran broadcaster, foreign correspondent, columnist and acidic Twitterer is on Justinian's Couch ... A masterful wordsmith ... Tireless combatant of the Murdocracy ... Issues with refrigeration and Christian piety ... The lure of the sea and its saltiness ... T.E.F. Hughes at the urinal ... Raging against the dying of the light
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