Soapy Brandis and Daphnis de Jersey flee after Queensland Law Society speech by Fr Frank Brennan on civil liberties and the law ... Glacial response from the top table ... Read more
Mark Livesey, Australia's national bar leader on Justinian's Couch ... The pressing issues confronting barristers ... The role of the ABA ... Personal tastes, likes and dislikes laid bare ... Read on >>
Queensland CJ Paul de Jersey's well-timed job application speeches found favour with the Newman government's lawn order agenda ... Appointment as Governor is no surprise, writes Alex Mitchell ... Read more
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Is the College of Law worth it? ... Surviving in an era of bonded labour ... Barely Legal ruminates ... Read more
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Mark Livesey QC, Australia's national bar leader on Justinian's Couch ... The pressing issues confronting barristers ... The role of the ABA ... Personal tastes, likes and dislikes laid bare... Read more
The importance of modesty ... Queensland bar's Lord Eldon reviews the barristers' pecking order ... Anyway, who's this Gageler fellow? Read more
Hellfire Club • Tuesday, February 25, 2014 Long struggle for Christine Nash ... Desperation in stumping-up money for a property scheme led to an unfortunate end to life at the bar ... Balmain property developers have reason to cry
Roger Fitch Esq • Tuesday, February 25, 2014 More delicious NSA revelations ... Getting off the no-fly list ... Guantánamo update ... Remaking the law of war ... Botched executions ... Wall Street's lack of conviction ... Roger Fitch files from Washington
Barely Legal • Monday, February 24, 2014 Barely Legal joins Justinian's team of bloggers ... A sense of failure sets in early ... Fluffing her way through VITs ... The cruelty of senior associates
Bar Talk • Friday, February 21, 2014 Rush for the patent letter at Vic's Bar n Grill ... Surge of SCs with hands-up for queen's bauble ... Monarchist sympathies awakened
Goings On ... • Tuesday, February 18, 2014 NSW QCs - attorney general Smith speaks ... Big law shop getting into the law news and reporting business ... Soapy making mischief at the Human Rights Commission
City Desk • Tuesday, February 18, 2014 Letters to the papers from David Flint, Senator Soapy Brandis and Bob (Plain Nut) Carr ... What are they on about? ... Strange missives
Court in the Act • Monday, February 17, 2014 A family of lobbyists and spinners with feet in all camps ... Government's food rating website and the clash of interests ... Remembrance of advice past ... Peanut butter lobbyists instructed judges and beaks on how to handle the meeja
Barry Lane • Sunday, February 16, 2014 Gouging the punter ... Banks hit with huge fines and compensation ... Wave of weasel words ... Barry Lane examines the latest scandals: crook insurance schemes, interest rate hedging scams and LIBOR rigging
City Desk • Saturday, February 15, 2014 Dyson Heydon, a clever troglodyte, handed the spotlight by the Addams family ... Extraordinary powers to explore anything and anyone ... Recalling some of Dyse's finest historical and literary flourishes