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Around the Firms • Saturday, April 13, 2013 Is Allan Myers the only silk in Melbourne? ... Clayton Utz insists on having this singular barrister to fend off claims by former partner Chris Dale ... Spectre of Rolah McCabe and document destruction ... Appeal against orders that Myers should not appear for the firm ... On and on it goes
Junior Junior • Wednesday, April 10, 2013 Baby barristers are such a bargain, so why aren't they snaffled-up? ... Junior Junior says clients should get rid of over-priced panel firms and use in-house solicitors as the go-betweens ... Saves money, which could then be spent on the barrister
Judges • Tuesday, April 9, 2013 Ithaca on the horizon ... Pineapple Mafia sharpening its implements ... Tutt-Tutt ... Wall-banging on the Gold Coast ... A Clare view of the law ... Murph surfs to a victory over the Legal Services Commissioner
City Desk • Sunday, April 7, 2013 Justinian interviews iconic court reporters Julie Johnson and Margaret Kirkpatrick ... Behind-the-scenes intricacies of electronic shorthand ... Capturing forever the highs and lows of court proceedings ... Judges who show consideration ... A vital cog in the justice system
Around the Firms • Thursday, April 4, 2013 Boosterism and law firm marketing ... Buffing the image with hype and lofty, but empty, messages ... The challenge of global positioning ... Alix Piatek reports
Stephen Keim • Wednesday, April 3, 2013 Runaway hit ... Book about the war on drugs in the US and the criminalisation of large parts of the Afro-American population ... Supreme Court validates racial bias of the criminal justice system ... Blacks like crack cocaine, whites prefer powder cocaine ... Sentencing discrepancies ... US incarceration rate the highest in the world ... Book review by Stephen Keim
Around the Firms • Thursday, March 28, 2013 Gilded orb of the Yarraside bar removed from appearing for Clayton Utz in bitter litigation over sacking of partner Christopher Dale ... Silk can't remember meeting and giving advice that is now the subject of litigation
Court in the Act • Wednesday, March 27, 2013 Mining companies hold the trump cards in getting access to farmland ... Unlike the Obeids, not all rural landholders are bending over backwards to have coal explorers blight the bucolic landscape ... Shortage of adequate agents and knowledgeable arbitrators
Around the Firms • Thursday, March 21, 2013 Unnerving sexual harassment campaign by suburban Melbourne solicitor ... Female member of staff awarded $100,000 damages ... Secret video of prolonged and repetitive harassment ... Solicitor's denials shot down by his own video ... Transcript - read it and weep
City Desk • Tuesday, March 19, 2013 Court swap ... Villawood trial in the Supreme Court heard in old Dizzo digs ... Interpreters and lawyers dig-in for the long haul ... Alix Piatek visits with her notebook
Stepping backwards out of the dark
Chief Justice Paul de Jersey dominated the news agenda with a speech suggesting that it was time juries have more information about an accused's other offences ... Queensland criminal barrister Peter Callaghan SC has his reservations
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